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The Detroit times., 1917-07-24

tracts for 24,o50 motor truck bodies
were let by the war department this
afternoon as follows:
international Harvester company.
Chicago, 10000 Grand Rapids
Mich) School Equipment company,
s. 400 Continental Car company,
louisville. Ky. 1000 Eagle Wagon
The Detroit times., 1917-07-24

works, Auburn. y. Y. 1900; London
Auto supply company. Chicago, %
900; G. w. Stratton company. De-
hance, Ohio. 700; MuIholland COM
pany, ,Dunkirk, n. Y. 500; Hercules
company, Evansville. Ind. 400;
Theodore Kundz company, Cleye-
land, $50.
The Detroit times., 1917-07-24
PLASTER PLOT
IN SANDUSKY
Officials Fear Samples Which
Flooded Ohio Town
Held Germs

sANDUSKY, O.. July 23.-San.
dusky has been flooded with small
packages OF court plaster. believed
by he police 20 have been distrih.
uted by Germans and 10 contain
tetanus germs as were those dis
tributed In Kansas towns
Health department officials are
collecting all packages for analysis.
Three strangers distributed them in
house-to-house canvass, it was
learned today
Warning against use OF the plast-
ers was issued today by Health Di-
rector Schocpfle The name OF y
Shure. Chicago. is printed across
the face % the packages.
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The Detroit times., 1917-07-24

J a recent air raid on London an
rmous bomb which fell near tha
rance TO a railway station made n
: I'M the ground 8 feet wide and
Yet deep. and yet 20 limited was
destructive range that the wood
X ~ covered footway a few
is distant was not shattered
The Detroit times., 1917-07-24
TEN-YEAR TERM
FOR DRAFTED WHO
GAVE FAKE NAMES

CHICAGO. July 23.-Draft regis.
iraants who gave fictitious names
and addresses were being hunted by
federal Investigators here today All
face trial by court martial and , II
found guilty can be imprisoned 10
years.
The Detroit times., 1917-07-24

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o. rfsht--Trmes job Dept.-wsfn fS2o.
The Detroit times., 1917-07-24

Truck Contracts Let
WASHINGTON. July 23.-Con-
The Detroit times., 1917-07-24

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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-05-01
LAST DEFENDANT
IN FEATHER BLACK"
CASES ACQUITTED

GALVESTON. April 30.-An in
structed verdict of not guilty was
given in the fifth district court today
In the case of the state against George
Tier, accused of murder in connection
with the death of William Black. an
anti-Catholic lecturer at Marshall.
Texas. in February, 1915 This is
the last of the so-Called Father
Black cases, which was transferred
to Galveston two years ago.
The Tier case had been set for May
.. Judge Street called it this morn
ing, a jury was empanelcd and when
the state announced that IT could not
make case on the evidence at hand
the court directed that verdict of
not guilty be brought in Earlier in
the case IA similar case against George
Ryan was dismissed ON motion OF
the state before a jury was selected
The defense appealed from this ac-
ton, stating that 1t wanted a trial and
verdict.
John Copeland. accused Of murder
in the same affair, was acquitted by
jury in the tenth district court last
autumn after "A trial which lasted ten
days.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-05-01
JAUNDICE CARRIED
BY RATS FATAL TO
JAPAN'S SOLDIERS

NEW YORK, April S0.--Dr. Iiideyo
Noguchi of the Rockefeller Institute
FOR Medical Research has completed
a series of experiments which show
that apparently healthy wild rats in
this country are infected with Wells
disease of infectious jaundice" com
mon in Asia and prevalent in the
European war zone, IL was announced
tonight.
In view of the fact that thousands
of Americans soon Will be collected in
military camps and possibly see serV-
Ice in the trenches il is feared that
the disease may spread here. Doctor
Noguchi will continue his studies of
the disease, II Is understood. in an
effort to discover a possible cure or
method of securing immunity from ii.
Wells disease is characterized by
sudden onsets of malaise. often in
tense muscular pain high fever for
several days followed by jaundice.
frequently accompanied by complica-
tions. IL becomes more Virulent as IL
Is successfully transmitted from one
victim to another. This is supposed
TO explain the much greater mortal
ity. about 80 per cent in Japan. as
compared with to per cent among
European soldiers.
The study of the disease was made
possible by the successful importation
from Japan and Flanders of guinea
pigs and rats which had been inocu-
lated with the causatiVe organism in
those two countries
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-05-01
MAJESTIC TO BUILD
NEW THEATER HOUSE
Structure to Cost More Than
$4,000 viii Be Erected
on South Main.

Details were completed Yesterday
whereby the buildings now located at
4O4, 400 and i0S South Main will be
moved at once for the erection of a
modern office building and theatre.
10 be operated by the management
of the Majestic theater.
The building, when completed. will
cost between $4,000 and 100000,
and Will be the finest exclusive mo-
ton picture theater in the state of
Oklahoma, according to the statement
issued yesterday by the agent OF this
concern.
The building fronting on South
Main will be five stories in height,
and thru this will be the entrance to
the theater which will extend back
the full length of the alley, or i40
feet. The seating capacity of the new
theater according to the announcer
ment made yesterday, will be approxl-
mately one thousand persons, and all
of the latest innovations In theater
construction will be included in tho
structure to be erected between the
present Majestic theater building and
the Ohio building
Tho theater will he provided with
new air chilling device, insuring a
cool atmosphere in the theater even
on the hottest days of summer. anL
system of concealed illumination
will be used in the lighting OF the
theater building,
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-05-01
DRAFT BILL UP FOR
FINAL PASSAGE TODAY
La Toilette and Others EX-
pected to Offer Many
Amendments to Measure.

WASHINGTON. April 3O.-The
army draft bill passed Saturday by
both houses of congress will be taken
up again tomorrow in the senate and
an effort made to clear up at once the
legislative tangle which is delaying
reference of the measure to confer
ence.
1t will be necessary for the the sem
ate to pass the bill again, and altho
there is little doubt that 1t will go thru
ultimately in the form in which the
senate approved 1t Saturday, 81 to 8,
Senator LaFollette and others may at
tempt to attach amendments, The
volunteer authorization and other pro-
posed changed can be offered again,
reopening a wide field for debate.
Chairman Chamberlain of the military
committee secured a recess tonight un-
I'll IL o'clock tomorrow, an hour ahead
of the usual meeting time, and will
try to put the bill thru tomorrow If
possivle. He made an effort to get II
up today, but failed because several
senators declared it easily could wait
day or two.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-05-01
GERMAN WRITER
FLAYS OFFICIALS
FOR PEEVING u. S.

COPENHAGEN. April 3O.-(Via
London) n)-MaXimilia Harden, the
German "Enfant Terrible, publishes
in the latest issue of Die Zukunft an
other daringly frank article exposing
to German readers the "shams, pre-
lenses and mistakes of their govern
ment's policy.
The article is devoted to the entry
Of the United States into the war
which Herr Harden warns the people
mast be taken most seriously, both
from the moral side as a symptom of
the weakness of Germany's appeal tc
the neutral world and the failure OF
her foreign policy, and because of the
physical aspects of the weight that
America will ultimately be able to
throw into the scale. He declares
that Germany's peace overtures were
put forward only as "A bridge over
which Germany could pass to relent-
less submarine warfare.
Herr Harden has only words OF
praise for President Wilson and his
policy and reveals a sighting opinion
of DR.. Alfred Zimmerman which he
did not conceal at the time of Zm-
merman's elevation to ministerial
rank.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-05-01
SHERIFF CLOSES ROADHOUSE
pace Where Indian Was Fatally
Wounded Is PadlOckcd.

Sheriff Mccullough and Deputies
Frank Wolf and Grant Pilkington
swooped down on the Taneha road
house early yesterday morning. ar
rested the man in charge and loiters,
and padlocked the doors. 1t was at
this place that VIII Bower, an In
dian. was fatally stabbed last Friday
night receiving wounds from which
he died "a hours later
The men were brought to the county
jail and information against them
will be filed today by the county at
torney's force. No Intoxicating liquor
was discovered and. according to one
of the deputies the only refreshments
found in the building were several
barrels Of cider.
vigorous investigation is being
conducted by Sheriff Mccullough to
find the slayer of Bowers. He had
no order to close this roadhOuse but
did it on his own initiative.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-05-01
HIGH SCHOOL BOYS DRILL
Forty Present at Inauguration of Mil
itary Training.

Military training was inaugurated
in the Tulsa high school yesterday aft
ernoon, when about forty boys gath
cred on the high school grounds and
responded to the order fan in" l..
w. Rock has charge of the drill work
and will put the boys thru half an
hours work each evening after school.
Nothing but the foot movements
have been given the boys. As soon as
the youngsters are able to handle the
work they will be given the mass
movements. In the future it is the
plan to equip the school drilling
squads with suits and possibly guns.
Altho there is only one month of
school left the class will probably be
carried on thru the summer.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-05-01
TULSA TRACTION CASES UP
Special to Tho World.

Special to Tho World
OKLAHOMA CITY; April 30
Cases of the oklahoma Union Rail-
way company versus the West Tulsa
Belt railway, and the Tulsa Street
Railway company versus the Okla
homa Union were heard by the cor
poration commission today Both
sides were given "A week each to BRIEF
the cases and submit them to the
commission.
In the first case, the oklahoma
Union, which is building an interur-
ban line, wants n crossing over the
West Tulsa Belt line. The lnterurban
company wants a grade crossing, but
the Belt Line company insists on an
overhead crossing.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-05-01
ADVANCE BELGIUM
$50 MILLION, PLAN
Apv tlolooS Iu,rJo,s,t
United States Officials Glad to
Extend Help to Shattered
Little Nation.
OTHER LOAN PLANS NOW UP
America Probably Will Let
France and Italy Have 200
or 300 Millions.

WASHINGTON. April 3O.-ln addi-
ton to loans to France and Italy to-
falling between s2OO,000,000 and
$500, 100000 the United States soon
will make a loan To Belgium, the
amount of which is yet to be deter
mined Unofficial estimates OF the
size of the Belgian loan place II at
approximately S150,O00,OOO.
Administration officials have been
i'm "A receptive mood toward an appl-
cation for IA Belgian loan ever since
the war finance measure became II
law. but formal application Tor ioah
was not made until today, when the
Belgian minister, Baron de cartier.
called upon Secretary McAdoo ana
placed before him tentative estimates
us to the relief desired.
Help Care for Refugees.
Secretary McAdoo and Assistant
Secretary Crosby discussed detalls
with the minister for more than three
hours. The tentative estimate was not
divuiged, but it is understood that IL
contains provision for meeting in part
the Belgian governments needs In
maintaining large number OF rtiu-
gees domiciled in France, in addition
Discussion of French and Italian
needs continued today in conferences
among Secretary McAdoo, Assistant
Secretary Crosby, the Italian ambassa-
dor and members of the French com
mission. Vice Premier Niviani spent
more than an hour in consultation
with Secretary McAdoo.
Ni,iani's First Visit.
!. 1900. N,,iavi's first call nj the
treasury department, and much of the
preliminary work had been disposed of
i'm previous meetings between his as
sociates and treasury officials.
other members OF the French COM
mission discussed the proposed loans
informally with the federal reserve
board ut luncheon.
Indications are that the French and
Italian loans will be made within the
present week, the time llnllt an
nounced by Secretary McAdoo last
week. The Belgian loan probably VIII
not be made until somewhat later
date.
Offer More Certificates.
Funds for the French and Italian
loans will be raised by further otter
Of treasury certificates, cApccteu
within the next few days. In this con-
consideration suggestion made by
the federal reserve board looking TO
the gradual flotation of the forth-
coming bond issue.
The suggestion provides for n bi-
weekly offering of treasury certiii-
Gates in blocks of Sl5O,OOO,OOO TO
$3.50, 900 according to the appar-
ent ability of the banks readily to alb
sorb them. The certificates may be
exchanged for the bonds when the
latter are issued. The suggestion also
contemplates the offering of certifl-
Gates to highest bidders, no bid below
par to be accepted.
Announce Terms Soon.
Reports from semiofficial sources
that Mr.. McAdOo was preparing 10
offer another block of certificates to-
morrow were said to be premature as
to the late of the offering.
Announcement of the terms of the
bond issue, It is expected. will be made
within day or two unless there Is
DELAY in reaching a decision as to GER
tain phases as yet undetermined.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-05-01
OKLAHOMA READY TO
REGISTER SOLDIERS
Governor Williams Completing
Plans; Election Officials
to Have Charge.
Special 10 Tho World.

Special to Tho World.
OKLAHOMA CITY. April 30.-Gov-
ernor Williams today completed his
army service In Oklahoma, in compli-
ance with the conscription law passed
by congress, which gave governors of
each state authority to arrange for the
registering of the men. The plan ar
ranged by Governor Williams Is not
unlike those of other states. In the
counties the county registration Of
ficer, county clerk and count health
superintendent will constitute the
registering board, and in cities of 30,
600 and over the mayor and two city
officials will constitute the board.
Like Registering Voters.
The registration will be by precinct
registrars and the name of eligibles
will be taken much after the fashion
of registering voters. Those who do
not come within the ages finally fixed
by congress will probably not be re-
quired to register at all. No exemp-
tions will be made at the time of regis
tration, but those will be considered
before the muster Is made There will
be no unnecessary expense incurred in
the work. The boards so provided for
will probably serve thruout the war or
as long as there is use for them. Com
pensation to registrars will probably
he the same as provided for in regis
tering voters, and this will be borne
by the state
Calls for Morris.
Governor Williams this evening sent
Go Jna 70 ~ of 40 CT "a n
election board, to come home imme-
diately, as there are some vacancies
among the county registrars and Nor
ris is the only one who can appoint
them 1t is estimated that the regis
tration should be completed in week
from the time the presidents procla-
nation is issued.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-05-01
PETROGRAD GARRISON TO GO
Army Held In Capital to Defend
Against Rebels Now to Front.

PETROGRAD, April 30, via Lon,
don.-The council of soldiers and
workmen's delegates today decided
that in view of the necessity OF pro-
viding new formations for the army
operating against the central powers
the Petrograd garrison, hitherto held
In the capital by order OF the pro-
visional government to be in readiness
to oppose any movement against tne
revolution. may henceforth be sent TO
the front If needed, provided authority
is given by the council.
A new general alliance of military
and naval officers has been constl
tuted in Petrograd with the aim of as
sisting the higher commission in or
ganizing the army on n new basis Tor
the object of attaining victory
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-05-01
KILLS FIANCE AND SELF
Indian Culdn't Stand IL When An
other Paid Attentions to Girl.

KANSAS CITY, April 30.-HIenry
Mccoy. "A chauffeur, shot and killed
Miss Mollie Cullen, to whom he was
engaged to he married at her home
here today, and then committed sui
eide. The girls mother witnessed the
tragedy which supposedly grew out Of
jealousy engendered when Mccoy
learned that another man had been
attentive to the girl. The chauffeur
a quarter-blood Indian, was a boarder
at the girls home. The killing oc-
Cured shortly after breakfast. Nc
Coys last act before shooting him
self was to cross the hands of the
dead girl
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-05-01
Terrific Artillery Duels
Still, and Official
Statements Brief.
SPECTACULAR AIR FIGHTS ON
Both Sides Claim Wet Dry
Above Ground; British
Losses at Oppy Heavy.
By Associated Press

The expected battle in the Cham
pagne region OF France. following
days of acute gun preparation by the
French forces, which was answered
almost shot for shot by the Germans,
at last has broken. Seemingly syn
chronizing II with the somewhat less
ened activity on the part of the Brit
ish against the Germans on the Arras
front the French Monday eastward
from Rheims. launched an attack over
front of about four miles from tho
south of Beine to the east Of Monte
Carnillet and captured several forti-
fled German trenches.
Blow Swift and Sharp.
Delivered at midday. the offensive
was swift and sharp. and at It's con-
clusion the French line had been
driven forward into territory pre-
viously occupied by the enemy to
depths ranging relatively from fivo
hundred to one thousand yards. Smul-
taneously to the eastward a thrust by
the French northeast of Mont Haut
netted them gain of about two-
thirds of a mile and placed them vir-
tually astride the Moron Vlllers- Nau-
rov road.
That fighting in this region has not
yet been brought to conclusion Is in
dicated by the official statement OF
the Paris war office. which announces
that artillery duels of violence are
still going on. There also has been
n continuation of the great artillery
activity from st. Quentin to the Ose
and along the Chemin des Danes
northeast OF Scissors.
Silence From Lens.
Little news concerning the situation
along the front from Lens to st.
Quentin. where the British for several
weeks have made notable gains. has
been vouchsafed in the latest official
The London war Of
flee Monday night merely mentioned
the repulse of a German attack east Of
Arras, between Monchy- le- -Breux and
the Scarpe river. The Berlin commu-
nication dismisses the Arras sector
with the assertion that Monday saw
only an artillery engagement of vary
ing intensity. but 1t goes to consid-
erable extent into Il description of tho
sanguinary engagements of Saturday
at Oppy, which 1t is asserted still re-
mains in German hands and north of
the Douai-Arras road.
The British casualties in this fight
Ing are declared to have been more
than six thousand, while more than
one thousand prisoners and forty ma
chine guns were captured and ten
tanks were destroyed.
Great Activity In Air.
The airmen of all the belligerents
continue to carry out spectacular bat
ties in the air, and bomb dropping ex-
ploits behind the fighting lines. Many
gallant fighters on both sides have
been brought to earth in aerial fights.
Berlin claims for one Of her fighting
total of y aircraft shot
down since the commencement of the
war.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-05-01
NEBRASKA IN DRY COLUMN
Total of $40 Saloons Close; Not IL
legal to Possess Liauor.

LINCOLN. Neb.. April 3O.-At s
O'Clock tonight S29 saloons, Is brew
cries and ten rectifying plants in Ne
braska closed under a prohibitory
law Initiated by the electorate and re-
intorced by supplemental statute
enacted by the legislature. Purchase.
manufacture, sale or gift of liquor
is prohibited but the possession is not
forbidden. A large number of sa-
looms thruout the state, reports to-
night said. sold their stock before
noon today AS a consequence prices
scared until bottled whiskes and
beers retailed in many towns at pro-
hibitive prices.
Mayor Charles W. Bryan of Lin
coin tonight pardoned all offenders
"now confined in the city Jail on ac-
count of Overindulgence in liquor" ;
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-05-01
CONGRESS TAKES
UP FOOD CONTROL
Measures Offered in Both
Branches Fail to Propose
Fixing of Prices.
HIGH COST PROBE STARTED
Forty States Represented at
Session of Trade Body;
Famine Not Likely.

WASHINGTON, April 3O.-The ad-
ministration's food control legislation
was introduced today in both housea
of congress.
In the house Chairman Lever of the
agriculture committe offered a bill to
give the agricultural department direct
supervision of food production and
distribution. The program was put
before the senate in a resolution by
Senator Gore, chairman of the senate
committee.
The measures proposed do not cover
price fixing or control of grain enter
Ing into the manufacture of liquors.
Both these subjects will be dealt with
In measures to be drawn later.
Need 25 Millions.
Twenty five million dollars is asked
for the agriculture departments use
in administering the program The
legislation calls for an immediate sur
vey of the countrys food resources and
confers power upon the department to
prevent speculation and price manpu-
lation. 1t would provide for equitable
distribution and would suspend the
law prohibiting the mixing of flour. It
would establish and enforce standards
ioi dSiiCulluIdI pIOuuclS ana Tor 1er-
tilizers.
Under the measures asked the sec
retary of agriculture could if the
government thot it necessary, license
or operate any business OF manufac-
ture. storage or distribution of food
food materials or seeds. He could
compel concerns so license to loose
boarded stocks of food, to refrain
from unjust or discriminatory prac-
n~ IA a Il ~.
to exact fair prices only. d,
Trade Inquiry Launched.
The federal trade commission, d.
rected by President Wilson to inves-
tigate with the agriculture department
the cause of high food prices, started
its inquiry today with a hearing at
which representatives of state food
commissions told of food conditions
throut the country. In outlining the
purposes and scope of the inquiry
members of the commission declared
their first aim would be to remedy un-
lawful and economic conditions. The
commission clothed with inquisitorial
and corrective powers will work in
close cooperation with the agricul-
ture department. giving particular at
tention to violations of antitrust laws
in food distribution.
Say No Food Shortage.
Forty states were represented at the
conference and four governors at
tended in person, Milliken of Maine.
FRAZIER Of North Dakota, Broffit of
Rhode Island and Harris of Georgia.
Many of the representatives blamed
high prices on middlemen and on poor
transportation methods. Some thot
there was no actual food shortage
and deplored the publicity given TO
reports of poor wheat crop. Hoard
ing by housewives and others, they
said, he'd taken much food from the
markets and had added to a general
hysteria.
Governor Frazier declared there
was something wrong with distrbut-
ing systems when farmers last fall re-
ceiVed less than 81 a bushel for po-
tatoes and saw them sold at retail
this spring at more than IS.