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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-20
Shell Holes Rep 1S .Sy mnan t.,:, Trenches
Germans Change Style of Fighting

ever-adyancing tide. SO IL has come
to be depth of defenses upon when
the Germans depend in many places
rather than the strength of his first
line trenches. The recent allied of
fensive east and north of lyres uia-
closed many examples OF this new
scheme of fighting which bids fair TO
take the place of tactics of the last
three years.
Whenever the German front line
trenches have been made untenaple'
or where "A British attack is expected
one finds the new order of things, The
first German lines now often CONSIST
of strong outposts concealed In shell
craters and a considerable distance
apart.
Nests Well Fortified.
Back of these outposts are shell
hole nests. each nest consisting of two
or three craters connected by under
ground passages that often lead to
dugouts. AS the entire territory Is
pitted With holes this Is easy OF ac-
compishment and II may be pre-.
sumed that the Germans figure II VIII
be hard for the allied observers to
pick out the defended shell holes from
the thousands OF others scattered
about
Where time has allowed. the Ger
mans have made the shell-hole de-
lenses with elaborate care. Each
nest Is heavily protected by barned
wire and the chambers beneath are
reinforced with timbers and concrete.
In these the infantry lurk with ma
chine guns and rifles. ready to rush
out and begin firing III an attack Is
launched against them.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-20
AMERICAN SHIPS MUST ARM
AGAINST SUBMARINE ATTACK
Extra Prcmium viii BE Demanded
of Vessels Failing to Meet Re-
Qmircmcnts.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 19.-All ves-
sells sailing for the war zone and car
rying war risk insurance will be re-
CURED hereafter to arm in accord
anCo with navy regulations or pay an
additional / per cent premium for
each voyage. Evidence that such arm
ament is not available will be the
only excuse accepted.
This is one OF the provisions of new
regulations announced tonight by
Secretary McAdoo 10 minimize tho
submarine hazard to ships plying to
European ports OF the Mediterranean
coast of Africa
Steamers without approved systems
fer preventing the emission of smone
from their stacks must carry smoke
less fuel sufficient for at least two
daylight periods Each must have at
least one dozen smUke screen boxes
on deck, and each must be painted in
accordance with one of the low visl-
bility plans recommended By the
naval consulting board.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-20
!. W. W. LEADER IS
PRISONER OF WAR
National Guardsmen Seize
James Rowan on Eve of
His Strike in Northwest.
OTHER AGlTATORS ARRESTED
Eight Taken From Train at
Long Beach; Government
Getting Busy.

SPOKANE. Wash, Aug. 19.-Jamcs
Rowan district secretary OF the In
dustrial Workers OF the World. who
has been planning a western mine
strike. and 20 other alleged members
OF the organization were arrested at
local I. w. w. headquarters here this
afternoon by company OF Idaho
national guardsmen and placed In tine
county Jail as military prisoners.
The arrests were made on the eve
OF the day on which strike OF /.
w. w. agriculture and construction
workers In Washington, Oregon.
Idaho and Montana. Is to become ef-
fective. Strike orders advising farm
workers ito lay down their tools"
have been signed by Rowan.
Lumber workers in the four states
already are on strike.
THE only effect OF my arrest will
be to intensity the strike" Rowan
said. while he was awaiting his turn
to be searched and booked. 81 think
the strike will spread further now.
and probably will affect industries In
which no strike has been called"
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-20
CONGRESS EXPECTS TOI
FINISH SEPTEMBER Is
Important Measures COnsid-
cred in Shape for Speedy
Passage Thru Gauntlet.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 19-The leg
is!ative program remaining for the ex-
ira session of congress has assumed
such definite form that leaders to-
night expressed hope for a vacation
about September Is, or not later than
October /.
Included in the program for dis
posal within the next three or four
weeks are:
The s2.O06, 100000 war tax bill.
A new war budget authorizing about
$3.50. 100000 in bonds. probably at
per cent, for further loans to the
allies, and to retire the $4,000. 900, 900
of the "a per cent bonds already au-
thorized and provicinG for $4,000
000,00 worth of certificates OF in
dehtedncss and like amount of small
denomination war savings certificates.
A deficiency appropriation measure
a sgregating between $6,000,0 900
ard $1,000, 100000, now being pre-
pared by the house apr opriations
committee.
The administrator trading with
the-enemy bill, which passed the
no Use July IL.
The administration measure for in
ST rance of soldiers and sailors.
Inc WeDD export trace Dlll, peace
resolutions in the senate, extension Of
the espionage act and several minor
measures.
Most OF these measures, leaders be-
lieve, can be disposed of while the
war tax is in conference. Should
obstructive opposition develop agains:
the less important bills, some may be
postponed unit congress reassembles.
Passage by the senate this weeE OF
the war tax bill is expected by lead
ers of both parties, but many mem-
bers believe it will go over into next
week. Tomorrow the senate, having
disposed of virtually all minor ques-
tions, will enter upon decisive and
vigorous disputes over the income,
war profits, publishers and consump-
tioI tax provisions. Senator La Fol
lctte plans a lengthy speech 'omor-
row in an effort to increase the IN
come and levy on war profits.
Confirmation of most of the two
hundred major and brigadier generals
recently nominated and of former
Representative Victor Murdocls oil
Kansas to the federal trade commis-
sion also is expected during the week.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-20
WCE-PRESIDENT OF NAVY
LEAGUE CHUCKS UP JOB
rcrry iseimont Refuses TO Stand
Hitchci With Man Who SLAM
dcrcd Daniels.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 1s.-Perry
Belmont tonight resigned as vice pres.
ident and director of the navy league.
In letter to Robert NJ. THOMPSON.
president of the organization, MIR. Bel.
mont said:
The good accomplished by the
navy league In the past is beyond
question. but Its present efforts are
j+opardized by persistent Disagree
ment with the official head OF the
navy. In time of war. or this atti-
t'idc disapproye. and therefore. with
regrets tender my resignation as one
of the vice presidents and directors
OF the league"
Because of what he denounced as
false and libelous attacks on him and
the service. issued by tho navy league
headquarters, Secretary Daniels re-
Gently announced that there could be
no connections between the navy and
tie league as now managed and Of
ficered.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-20
Russian General Beaten
to Death by Mutineer$

PETROGRAD, Aug ia report
has been received by Premier Keren-
sly according TO the Novoe Vremya.
Of the killing by soldiers of General
Pursasoff, a veteran officer, who mad
been in active service since the be-
ginning of the war A certain COM
pany of soldiers, the paper states. re-
fused to recognize a newly appointed
commander, wlereupon General Pur-
gasoff ordered the company disbanG-
ed and the leaders Of the mutiny ar
rested. The mutineers then surround
ed General Purgasoff and beat him to
death with the butts OF their rifles
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-20
Germans Loot Cathedral.

PARIS, Aug. lit is officially
announced that the German com
munique of Thursday In which It was
stated that French shells at St Quen-
tin fired the Presbytery from where
the fire spread to cathedral" is un-
true. The German communication. 4,
is declared was meant to conceal a
fresh atrocity as the Germans long
aHo decided TO destroy the cathedral.
Under the direction of Lieutenant
Baron Won iadeln, art historian at
tached to German headquarters. the
cathedral was stripped OF It's stained
glass, the choir transept and the
Gothic rose windows and statues.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-20
American AUiatOrs
Play Leading Role
in French Air Raid

PARIS, Aug. l9.-The Lafayette
squadron, composed of American avia-
tors, played its part in the French air
raids reported in the official com
munication on Saturday when II was
announced that $4,000 pounds OF
bombs and explosives had been
dropped on German military estap-
lishments, railroad stations and en-
campments. Corporal Harold Wits
of Boston, a member of the squadron.
has not returned from the raid which
resulted in a number of aerial flgnts
with the Germans.
Two groups of chasers were chosen
from the ranks of the Lafayette
squadron. commanded respectively by
Lieutenant Raoul Lufbery of Wal
lngford. Conn, and Adjutant Dyer
Mason San Francisco, which Travelled
protectingly to the right and left of a
bombing machine as it entered enemy
territory. Another group from an
other squadron followed in the rear.
The Lufbery command obtained
most of the action and Aviator Dudley
Hill, Peekskill, N. Y, had narrow
escape when two Germans attacked
him with incendiary bullets. He es-
capped with one bullet hole thru a
lower plane by out-maneuvering his
opponents. He is believed to have
brought down one German.
w. A. Courtney Campbell. jr.. of
Kenilworth. ILL.,, who two months ago
lost one whole wing OF his machine
in midair and yet managed to return
to his own lines safely, was again the
victim of a peculiar accident. Just
as the bombing party reached the
Somme field a heavy bombing ma
chine balked and landed squarely on
top of his light chasing machine. He
saw the danger in time and scram-
bled out to safety. His plane was cut
suuarely in two
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-20
STRIKE IN KRUPPS PLANT
Arrest of Laborcr Leads to Walkout
by Fellow Workmcn.

AMSTERDAM, Aug. 19.-The Lo-
kal Anzeiger states that several hun
dred workmen employed in Krupps
Madgeburg plant have gone on
strike owing to the arrest of one OF
their leaders. The workmen consid-
cred this u disciplinary measure and
sent deputation headed by the reich .
stay deputy. Herr Brondes. to the dep
uty commander r-in-chief asking him
to release the leader, The deputy
commander-in-chi informed the
deputation that the man under arrest
was suspected OF high treason because
he had distributed handbills melting
workers to general strike.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-20

the art OF painting tho facial arrangement
has worn out its welcome and the women
are resorting to a more upto-date plan-that
OF calcimining. So far as We have been able
to learn-and we have consulted some very
eminent paint specialists-painter' collie does
not lurk where calcimine Is used Not only
Is calcimining the more desirable from o
standpoint Of beauty but IL is doubly de-
sirabie because Of its cinging qualities.
Once II becomes attached to u tender com
plexion II refuses TO become displaced,
whereas the old.fashioned paint would rub
off and at times place male individual in
something Of an embarrassing predicament.
Present.dsy calcimine is guaranteed to wear
for period OF not more than eight days.
Scientists, however, are not idle and time
may bring forth an article that will have to
be refurnished but once q year. Now, let $
see about the weather. Yesterday was an
elegant day. As predicted 1t was part cloudy.
The maximum temperature was 80 degrees
the minimum 73 degrees For tomorrow we
announce additional part cloudy weather.
either that or fair with soaring temperature
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-20
Haig's Men Advance on Mile
Front While French Repel
German Efforts.
AIR FIGHTING IS FURIOUS
Seventeen Teuton Aircraft
Shot Down; Eight British
Fail to Return.
By The Associated Press

Altho for the most part the British
and French forces In Flanders and in
the vicinity of Lens are consolidating
positions won last week from Crown
Prince Rupprecht. the British near
fpres have made IA further advance
on mile front to a depth OF about
five hundred yards and also In tho
Somme region have renewed their at
lacks with advantage. In tho latter
maneuver Field Marshal Haig's men
captured positions near Epehy. in
flicting heavy losses on the Germans.
French Lines Hold.
The Germans have been trying the
strength of the French lines In tho
Vosges mountain region, where after
heavy bombardments they attacked
the French around Badonvillier and
north OF Celles-sur- Plane. Their ef-
forts went for naught under fire Of
French guns and rifles.
Along the Aisne front and in thu
Nerdun sector along the banks OF the
RIVER Meuse continued attempts by
the German crown prince to break
the French lines met with failure.
Air Fighting Furious.
Airmen OF the allies are working
havoc with German flyers and have
bombed German positions far behind
the lines. In fights Saturday French
airmen accounted for seventeen Ger
man aircraft and British flyers seven.
which were destroyed or forced to
land inside the Teutonic lines badly
battered. Eight British machines
iaiied TO return to their base.
In aerial raids behind the lines al
lieu machines have bombed numer-
GUS towns railway stations and can
tonments, raids extending as far as
Selzaete, near the Dutch frontier.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-20
German n-Americans Are
Fighting With TeutOns

GENEVA, Switzerland, Aug. 10
News received here from Munich,
Bavaria, is to the effect that a num-
Der of German n-Americans are fight
ing with the Bavarians. some as vol
unteers and other under compulsion,
Germany considering her nationals
wherever they may be naturalized, as
Germans.
The advices say that the practices
of forcing German-Americans into
the fighting line has been general
since the departure of the American
representatives from Berlin.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-20
Nlamaux OutlaMcd.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Aug. l9.-By
pitching for an amateur team here
today, Al Mamaux, suspended Pitts
burgh National league club pitcher,
threw himself out OF or
ganized baseball. according TO base
ball men here. Reinstatement by the
national baseball commission is de-
cleared TO be his only means of re-
entering professional ball.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-20
Belgian TOlOn Occupied
by Germans Is Bombed

SAS VAN GENT, Holland. Aug. 10.
Terrific explosions Of bombs dropped
by entente allied airmen in a raid
shors lyn before midnight on Selzaete,
a Belgian town on the Dutch frontier,
eighteen miles north of Ghent,
awakened all the inhabitants of this
town German antiaircraft lotteries
were very active, some of their shrap-
mel bursting over Sas Van Gent.
Ghent, which in normal times has n
population OF ITO, 1000, also was raided
by the entente allied aviators.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-20
Out at Last!

AMSTERDAM. Aug. l9.-General
vone Liebert. in a speech at Rattle
now, Prussia, is quoted by the
Deutsche Tages Zeitung as saying:
We cannot sign peace before we
have the Flanders coast, a colonial
empire and maritime bases Should
we not realize this now we must pre-
pare to work for II after the war in
view of the next war"
General Lieberts speech was loudly
cheered. but criticized later by the
German press.
Vorwaerts declared:
This may prolong the war until
Germany has been so beaten that even
our pan-Germans cannot think OF a
next time"
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-20
CLAREMORE TO AID TULSA
Rogers County Bankers Go TO Kansas
City and Speak Tor Magic City.
Special to The World

Special 10 The World.
CLAREMORE, Okla, Aug. 18.-G.
d. Davis, cashier Of the National Bank
of Claremore of this city. was among
the bankers of this part of the state
who appeared before the federal re-
serve board of Washington. ID. c.. sit
ting at Kansas City, Mo. to make an
appeal for the designation of fed
eral reserve bank at Tulsa. Mr.. Davis
appeared before the board at Kansas
City Thursday, together with numer-
Gus other bankers from this section.
The decision of the board will not be
announced until fall. but those inter
ested in seeing Tulsa get "A federal
reserve bank are very optimistic over
the meeting at Kansas City. Okla
homa City was also contending for
the reserve bank. Mr.. Davis returned
home Friday morning.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-20
Drop Bombs
on H0spita! at Venice

ROME. Aug 19.-Austrian airplanes
which bombarded Venice last Tuesday
dropped explosives on the civil hos
pital which forms part of the famous
school OF st. Mark. This school, with
it's nei2hboring statue of General
Bartholomeo Colleoni and the cele-
brated church of st. John and Paul
containing monumental tombs of the
doges. is considered one of the great
est wonders Of the world.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-20
Soldier Struck Dead by
Lightning; Others Hurt

NEVADA, Mo-, Aug. e.-Sergeant
Rule II. Treece, NJ company, Sixth
Mssour. infantry, was killed by light
ring at the mobilization camp here
this afternoon during a heavy wind
and rain storm. Captain Grant David
son, the company's first sergeant, and
the company clerk, in the same tent
with Treece, were slightly shocked.
Many tents were blown down by the
storm and the occupants drenched.
freezes home was at Popular Bluff
Mo He had just finished a letter
to his mother when ne was killed.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-20
Hungarian Premier TO ou,t.

AMSTERDAM, Aug. Budapest
dispatches insist upon the prov inE
likelihood of the resignation OF the
Hungarian premier. Count Esterhazy.
The king wishes to avoid change.
the dispatches say. but difficulties
have arisen owing to friction betw cen
Count EsterhaIy and Count Karolyi,
president of the Hungarian independ-
ence party, particularly on the ques-
tions of foreign policy and the con-
t,usion of peace
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-20
Strike Merely SUSPENDED.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Aug. 19-J.
+. Kcnnamer. president OF District
No. 20. United Mine Workers Of
America. just back from Washington.
said today 1t should not be understood
that the Alabama coal strike has been
called off. 1T has simply been post
poncd." no said. pending the inves-
tigation which Secretary of Labor
" Nilson will make when he visits Bir-
mingham Thursday"
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-20
(;cncral Crowdcr Injured.

FREDERICK CITY, Md, Aug. 19.
Provost Marshal General f.. II.
Crowder this afternoon was cut and
bruised about the face when he was
tossed against the top of his automo-
bile as the machine was swung abb
effort to avoid an obstruction. The
Generals eyeglasses we're shattered.
the fragments lacerating his nose. The
Injuries are not serious. General
Crowder and his party was en- route
tv Harper's Ferry,
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-20
Potatoes Cause Strike.

LONDON, Aug. ia strike "a
workers in the Essen and Dusseldorf
districts is threatened, according to
Amsterdam dispatches. The workers
demand ten pounds of potatoes week.
ly. At a meeting arranged betwevn
labor delegates and the war food de-
partment. II was declared that II was
impossible to give the workers moro
than eight pounds of potatoes during
the next twenty weeks. Agitation
favoring a strike in tho Rhine prov
inces Is increasing daily, according to
the dispatch.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-20

COPENHAGEN, Aug. 10. The
general cost of living in Denmark, ac-
cording to a compilation made by the
statistical bureau, has increased 90
per cent during the war The IN
crease up TO February was AZ per
cent. In Norway and Sweden the
cost of living, according to figures
compiled in May, has Increased re-
spectiyely II per cent and so per cent.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-20
PIPELINE CONTRACT is LET
ROxana Company VIII Construct Oil
Transporting Facilities to st. Louis.

Special to The World.
ST. LOUIS, Aug. ia contract
for the oil pipeline which is to be
constructed between Cushing, Okla,
and St Louis. Mo-, by the Roxana
Petroleum company of Woodriver, H.,
has been awarded to the Yarhole Con-
struction company. large Oklahoma
concern according to information re-
ceived here.
The line will be tapped no place be-
tween Cushing and st. Louis. The
lire will be ten inches in diameter and
so far as possible will follow a straight
course to st. Louis. A subcontract
has been awarded to the Henry j..
Brandt Construction company Of
Chelsea, Okla, to furnish teams.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-20
Foreman Only KnOIUn
Victim of Explosion

MONTREAL. Quebec, Aug. 10
Only one person, a foreman, is known
to have been killed by the explosions
which destroyed the powder plant of
the Curtis & Harvey Co., Ltd, at Re-
gaud, near here, yesterday. The
financial loss is placed at s2,00O,000.
Six workmen were injured severely.
This statement was made tonight by
L. S. Curtis, director of the company.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-20
spanish Mutiny SaucIched.

MADRID. Aug. 19.-The present
aspect of the Spanish capitol is nor
NAL. In the mutiny at the prison at
Alcala one prisoner was killed and ten
wounded before calm was re-estab'
lished. In collision between gen.
darmes and workmen in the famous
Rio Tlnto copper mines at Huelva
four strikers were killed and Is
wounded
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-20
Rightly Placed.

AMSTERDAM, Aug. ls.CCoun'
Rernstorff. former German ambassa-
dor TO the United States, has been APP
pointed. according to the Berlin Nos-
sische Zeitung, to the post at Con-
stantinople. He will leave Berlin I'M
mediately.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-20
CALCIMINING.


Once upon a time a
brother, learned and
wise, sailed forth with
the assertion that 1t
was becoming so tina,
every time a man
kissed a girl he was
laying himself liable to
painters collie. II was
some two years ago
that this was estab-
lished TO the satisfac'
ton OF the establisher.
Since that contention
WAS placed before tho
public gaze In cold
type styles have
changed. There, ap-
psrently. is no further
danger OF becoming In.
fected with painter 5
collie thru kissing a
girl. No danger by
virtue OF the fact that
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-20
16 KILLED IN LONDON CRASH
Soldiers and Sailors Included In List
OF Casualties.

DOVER, England, Aug. 19.-Six-
teen persons were killed, forty injured
today when a crowded street car on
q suburban line ran wild on steep
hill.
The casualties include officers, SOL
diers and sailors.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-20
soldiers Raid Headouartcrs.

PORT ANGELES, Wash. Aug. 10
number Of national guar ismen. ir-
Guiding men from the coast guard
cutter Snohonish. wrecked the In
dustrial Workers OF the World head
quarters here today. throwing furni-
ture and papers into the bay from
which thay were later recovered.
Corporal Egan, alleged leader of
the raiders. was arrested. An mvesti-
cation Is being conducted.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-20
Indian Commissioner to
Pau Tulsa Visit Today

Cato Sells, commissioner of Indian
affairs, who has been investigating
matters connected with tribal affairs
at Musk ogee, is scheduled to arrive
in Tulsa this morning accompanied
by r. C. Allen. attorney for the Creek
nation.