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-7tir TP OOSHI In via of the fart that tha iwlir are nut molralitif th ina'a quartet or afreet rorner lltor w ..iinost lh blitrroats b railed uuon to form hug exterminating brigade. Tim buga that have ucstcrad' lulsJlis for ilia past two night should" bo nniniiated. Wlirn you finUh rending this per ilnro t-rtnt tramp on tliU not if, hnml Mmf to any postal nv ilujft himI it will htt jiiAtxl in thA ntnti of our hoMhth or ui.liri at tl. front. NO WRAIMMNU, NO AMUCKHrt A. 8 Ilurlmuti, Iwt niaHter (Jeneriil. 7vrof istztv g EDIT XCTSSl VOL. XII, NO. 331 TULSA, OKLAHOMA, . FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1917 12 PAGES PRICE 5 CENTS lllfl II WW SLACKER LIST IS POSTED BY BQARD Names of 67 Who Failed to Appear for Examination Given to Officers. SECOND CALL IS DELAYED Testimony of Those -.Filing Supporting Affidavits Will Be Taken Today. The local exemption board yester duy completed a lint of those men drafted in the flint call who have made no claim for exemption, and who now stand ready before the district exemption board for military Bervlce of the United States. This list of men certified to the district board con tains the names of 118 men, physi cally fit for service, or slightly less than one-half of this city's quota, which Is 279. as announced by the war department. List Is Posted. The local exemption board also posted u list of those persons who have failed to respond to the summons to appear for examination as pre scribed by law, and while tho word "slacker" is not used officially in con nection with the list, the names of these 67 men have been placed In the hands of ngents of tho department of Justice, and they will be brought by these representatives of the law be fore the proper authorities to show reason why they should not be held as violators of the law and pressed into military service. In the event that every man who has not responded to his call Is cer tified to the district board and Is cited to appear for military service ' comes In, Tulsa's quota will be increased from 118 to 185 by the addition of the 67 "slackers". This will leave but 4 additional men for Tulsa to secure to have the full quota of 279 men. It is probable, however, that the 118 who have been certified up to the exemp tion board as not claiming exemptions before the lower board, some will make claims for exemption or dis charge on Industrial or occupational grounds before the appellate board. These cases will bo limited, however, and it Is probable, officials declare, that at least one hundred of the men on the "honor roll" will report ready for service. This number, with the 67 who have not as yet reported, and those who will have their claims for exemption disallowed, either by the local or district board, will bring the number up above the two hundred mark. The remainder will necessar ily be secured from the second call which will be issued by the local board, probably some time next Week. Defer Second Cull. Mayor John H. Simmons . declared yesterday that the second call to fill Tulsa's quota would not be issued within the next few days. "It will be Impossible for us to issue the second call for several days at least," tho chairman of the board an nounced. "We will only Issue a call to secure the men we need to fill out tho quota. At this time we do not know how many that will be. Until we have passed upon these claims for exemp tion which have been presented to us, and after we have received notice of the disposition of appeal cases taken to the district board, we will not know how many more men we need. Tulsa's quota is 279. We must fill this quota and sccuro an excess of at least 15 per cent in order to ta?? the place of the discharges which will result when the medical examiners of the canton ments have made their final examlna N COXTlXl'Kl) ON PAOK FOl'R KANSAS CITY STREET. CAR STRIKE SETTLED City Officials and Mediator Ef fect Agreement Between" Company and Men. KANSAS C1TV. Aug. 16. Street car service In Kansas City, paralyzed for nine days by a strike of more than two thousand operating employes of the Kansas City Hallways company, will be resumed tomorrow morning". Settlement of tho walkout was effect ed today, both the company and the men ratifying- terms that will permit unionisation of the company on an "open shop" basis. The settlement was arranged by Frederick L. Feick, federal labor con ciliator; Mayor George H. Kd wards of Kansas City, Mo., and a committee of business men who worked thru all of last night until early today preparing the terms. It first was put before the men, who accepted it with only six dissenting votes, and then was signed by Clyde Taylor, acting president of the company. The settlement was a compromise on each side. For years the men have been seeking the right to belong to unions and to have arbitration meas ures provided for tho consideration of grievances. These points they won. The car company has fought equally hard against the principle of a "closed shop'' or, as It was explained, agree ments with tho men that would per mit only those carrying union cards to work for tho system. Such a pro vision was contained in the accepted terms. The men nlso sought the re instatement of certain men discharged prior to the strike and this was grant ed them. The arbitration clause also was characterized as pleasing to them. It provides a board of three to consider all disputes, one member ap pointed by each side and a third then selected by the two appointees. Questions of wage Increases were not taken up In the settlement. Such a desire was one of the demands of the men at the beginning of thd strike, but leaders of the men havctold them, In addresses at various nietings,"That such a dispute could belt be taken up after an arbitration board had been created.' It . was presumed by ol sci vers that the wage question would bo brought up later, Eskimo Admits Eating J f T. it-era nf Priest mtet ' f j Companion He Killed , EDMONTON, Alberta, Aug. 16. Sinnisiak, one of two Kskiutos from the Bloody Falls country on the fringe of tho Arctic ocean, who are on trial here for the murder of Father luu viere nnd Father LeRoux, has con fcsse.l to tho double crime. Sinnislak told how he and Uluksuk, the other defendant, were engaged by Father LeRoux to draw his sleigh thru the Cupper Mino river district; huw, during a terrific storm, they quarreled and how he ( Sinnisiak I be coming frightened, slipped a knife be tween the priest's shoulders. Father Itouviere fled, but made slow progress thru the drifts and soon was shot down by the Ksklmos, who with ax and knife cut up the two bodies, eat ing the livers, uccording to the con fession. The Kskimns were returned for trial recently after a two-year search by a little group of Royal Northwest mounted police over a 3, 000-mile trail thru the wildest of the north country. SECOND ATTEMPT TO ' KIDNAP GIRL FAILS Mother's Unexpected Return Saves Pretty 16-Year-Old Maggie Sutherland. What Is believed to have be?n th second attempt of a ban 1 if Viiite slavers to carry off Mnggl.s Suther land, a pretty 16-year-old KH'l li!n-f nt Tenth and Lewis, was folic,! ys terday afternoon about 5 o'clock when the girl's mother discovered 'icr daughter, bound and gauged behind a couch where she had been placed nv two men who were frightened from the home by tho mother's unexpected return. According to the story told Sheriff McCulloiigh and Constable -'. Oberts, the mother and daughters were In the crchard a few moments before the at tack, and the girl was sent to the house to procure an apron from a closet. As she pulled open the door to the closet, two men threw a blanse; over her head and then tearing route cotton from a mattres.-i securely gagged the girl by tying a lace cur taln about her head. Her hands were then securely tied to her body and she was uU vj.l lelilnu the couch! It Is the opinion of the officers that the men intended to n turn nnd carry the girl away but were frightened when the ni'ither re turned. .About ten months ago, aec rdtts?'to the officers, while the Sut'ioilnnd family was residing at Thirteenth no Troost, the first attempt M kidnap Maggie Sutherland was mail. Iw men entered the Sutherland homo on that occasion and placed chloroform on tho girl's pillow, but she. was awak ened In time to cry out to her pur ents, who frightened the iifjn from the place. GENERAL STRIKE EXPECTED TO BE CALLED BY I. W. W.'S General Secretary Declares Walkout Will lie Ordered In Northwest ern States. SPOKANE. Wash.. Aug. 16. A general strike of the Industrial V era-I ers of the World called for M.'V.d.'v Is certain to become effective unless de mands are granted and member held in Jails In Oregon, Washington, Mr ho and Montana are released, according I to a statement made today by James j liowan, assistant secretary of the 1. W. W. I'.owan said the threatened strike had no political "significance and was simply a movement lor bit terment of workers. Fifty-Eight Mines in Illinois to Open Again SPRINOFIliLIV 111.. Aug. K. It was predicted in mining circles to night that Monday will see most of the mines now idle at work, but no official reports on the situation wer received; Governor" Lowden has been kept In constant touch with the situation and is using every means at his disposal to cnuVe resumption of work. It was estimated by an operator here today that the daily Illinois coal output is short 75,000 tons of the nor mal supply as a result of the strike. Secret Wireless Plant '' . Discovered in Argentina nUEXOS AIRK8, Aug.- 16. A se cret wireless station has been discov ered on the coast of Chubut by the Argentine navy department. The authorities believe the station was used in communicating with sus picious vessels in the south Atlantic. Italy and Belgium Make Another Touch on U. S. WASHINGTON. Aug. 16. Loans of $40,000,000 to Italy and $5,900,000 to Belgium were made by the govern ment today, bringing the total thus fnr advanced the allies up to $1,916, 400,000. LEGLESS MAN WOULD SERVE Itefuses Exemption When Rejected by St. Louis llonrd. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Aug. 16. Robert L. Allen, a legless man of Alesboro, Texas, examined for the selective army by. a St. Louis board, and re jected on physical grounds, refuses exemption, and in a letter to the local board Insists that he be accepted for the army In some capacity. The letter has been forwarded to the var department. - - T)mm Clioose Srranton. -"COLORADO SPRINGS. Col., Aug. 18. Scranton, Pa., today was award ed the 1818 convention of the Inter national Typographical union by a unanimous vote. Albany, N. Y., made application for the 1919 convention. Tho convention indorsed a plan to care for members who enlist for the war thru the local unions or by a 10 cont monthly per capita tax AMERICAN ARMY REORGANIZED ON EUROPEAN BASIS Size of Company Increased to 250 Men Under Two Captains. CUTS OVERHEAD COST Colonel and ' His Regi mental Staff Now Will Control 3,600. OKLAHOMA SOLDIERS PLACED National Guard in Thirty-sixth Division and Drafted Troops in Ninetieth. .WASHINGTON, Aug. 1G Complete reorganization of all branches of tho American army to conform with Euro pean standard as recommended by Major General Pershing is provided for in army orders revealing that the recently announced divisional reor ganisation plan is to be canted into regiments nnd companies. The administrative uuit of the In fantry army hereafter will ba a com--pany with 250 enlisted men and six commissioned officers, in place of something over one hundred men and, three officers. The company will be divided into four platoons, each in command of a lieutenant. There will be two captains as first and second In command, one first lieutenant and three second lieutenants. Reports of the review of American troops in Prance yesterday show that this plan already has been carried out in Gen eral Pershing's forces.. Reduces Disorganisation. The object of assigning two cap tains to each company, it Is under stood, is to provide against disorgani zation of the unit thru the loss of its commander. The second captain, un der the Kuropcan system, does not go into battle lino with the company If his senior is present. He is held as a reserve to reorganize tho company it necessary. Undei tho new plan each regiment will have three battalions of four com panies, making a total of three thou sand men. Supplemented by the regi mental headquarters, supply nnd ma chine gun organizations, the strength of the new regiments will be brought up to approximately 3,600 men as against little more than ,lwo thousand in existing war strength regiments. Field Artillery Not Changed. The unit organization of field ar tillery and other arms of the service has not been changed. As a result of reducing the number of regiments in a division, that unit Instead of 28, 000 men will total hereafter about 19,000 men, 15,000 of them Infantry. Tho advantages of the system in ad dition to the better adaptation of the divisional unit to trench warfare. Ho chiefly in the reduction in overhead expense. One colonel and his regi mental staff including his three bat talion commanders will now handle 3.600 men instead of little more than two thousand. Today's orders show that provision has been made for organization of 32 CO.NTlNl'Kli O.N PA (IK K1VK WAX STILL EXPLODES AT COSDEN REFINERY Fireman Is Injured in Myster ious Fire Enveloping Por tion of Plant. An explosion of unknown origin at the Cosden refinery, West Tulst, nt 9:30 o'clock last night wrckej a parafine still containing -9 tons of wax products and slightly Injured Kd. Maker, S9, a fireman, when tho central portion of th great plant Lectin j en veloped In a seething mass of flamm. Officials of the refining company i.toutly deny a rumor that the ex plosion was caused by foul play on the part of intruders on the premises. The property loss is estimated ax $2,000. The top of the giant paraflno vat was hurled several hundred feet Into tho air and the flaming cont-jnM dis seminated over adjacent npidlHiieen and buildings. Raker, who was sihiio. Ing on a platform twenty feet from the still was thrown a distance of it feet to the ground, sustaining injur'es to one leg and painful burns about the face. The blaze was confined to th? vat and the melting of sur.'oiindin..; pipes. Firemen from the .'omininy'l department extinguished the fiam" and the Injured fireman was given emergency aid nt the ref'nery hos nital. P.akcr had been employed nt the plant only one week. H.i cam a to Tulsa ten days ago from Albion, Okla. "Rc-ports that the fire was caused by so-called German spy clement are p.hsnlutely groundless," D. W. Moffntt, general manager for the Coslen in terests, said at the scene of tho fire. "Water may have come In rontnet with the vat, and an explosion v.'ocld have been an easy mutter. Such fires ere a common occurence at refin eries.." The fire as viewed from thu busi ness nnd residence portions of Tulst gave an Impression that hn entlro re finery district was in flames. Thou sands of visitors were attracted arrot the river. J Cities Must Chase liedlights or Lose j j Army Cantonments WASHINGTON. Aug. 1 6. Secretary linker has warned the mayors of cit ies near army training camps or can tonments that they will be held re sponsible for maintenance of whole some moral conditions in their com munities. If the desired results ran not be obtained In any other day, the secretary said in a letter to the may ors, be will not besitatu to move camps to other sites. The mayors were sent copies of laws and regulations governing the camp areas. The five-mile zone in which Immorality is "strictly to be put down" under the regulations. Mr. linker says, does not mean that con ditions outside that zone are to go un watched. All evil resorts within easy access to the camps, he declares, must be suppressed. TWO KILLED IN WRECK OF THE KATY LIMITED Fast Train Telescopes Freight, Near Fort Worth; Four Others Injured. POUT WORTH, Aug. I fi. Knjrl neer Jerry Scott. 54 years old, nnd Fireman W. A.' Hammock, 30 years old, both of Ienlson, were Instantly killed nnd four persons Injured at !:. last night when n Kaly limit"! pas senger and a freight train telescope I rear Wautuga, nine miles from Fort Worth. Tho Injured were K. R. Uri't'n, Penison, express messenger; A. M. I'.'lllott, Kiowa, passenger; a ivomm passenger who would not give In r name, and S. W. Walker, negro rnll nian porter, 126 Mackensen ptrect, San Antonio. None were InJuvoJ iieri ously. The passenger train left Fort AVorth at 9:05 p. m., 35 minute (;ne. The fret ;ht was trying to l ack in on the siding where the lu-eident oc curred, but on account of the train being long was delayed. Members of the freight crew claimed they smii a flagman ahead to flag the p.issrnger, but the crew of the limited claim that the flagman evidently did not get awuy from the train before the con tact. When the limited struck the frelsni it appears as If the fireman had tried to jump, according to some of the members of the freight crew. J I In body was picked up probably twenty fet from the engine. The engineer stayed at the throttle and was crushed In the wrocUage. Part of his body could be seen In the cabin of the en gine which was badly crushed. Oklahoma Women Hurt in Colorado Collision PF.NVKR, Col., Aug. 16. Mrs. Zoe Skelton, 30 years old. of Muskogee, Okla., was injurel, probably fatally, and Miss "Pet" Summers, IX, of llen ryetta, Okla., was painfully hurl today whon a taxlcab in which they were driving to Fort I,ogan, Col., was struck by a train near Uttleton, a suburb. A. J. Coog of Littleton, the driver of tho car, died on the way to a hospital. German Navy Lieutenant Arrested for Being Spy SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 16. Lieut. Irving F. Schneider of the German navy was arrested here on a presi dential warrant as a spy three days ago, department of Justice officials unnounced today. Many maps and pa pers declared to- be of an Incriminat ing nature were found In his posses sion. New Officers to Go to France for Instruction WASHINGTON. Aug. 10 From the 27.000 officers taken from the train ing camps Just closed a considerable number are being selected to begin Immediately Intense training in France under Major General Pershing at an officers' school in tho American army area. NETHERLANDS WILL DEMAND EXPLANATION FROM KAISER Wants to Know Why German ThmhIo IJoat Violated Dutch " Neutrality. THK HAGUE, Aug.' 10 Official an nouncement was made today that the Netherlands minister nt Merlin hud been instructed to protest seriously to the German foreign office against the violation on August 7 of Dutch ter ritorial waters by German airplanes and torpedo boats off the Scheldt. THE WEATHER for rhanva w "hull refrain front as-1 Ing thii apars fur thj diaculon of anything othrr than tho weathtr iiwYr, we ni.zlit Of TrtE B0iNE5i MACttiNC. add that a Inter rriclird onr draK to day referring lo tlila il, I'llllllinnl. Til rod. trnta nf thn riiMniva will ba mad p.llilia at a later date and in another department rondiicteil by our nfllvea. Wa invite cor respondence, A cer tain brother In this town has hhd tin aai' I ary hnoited twice l.jr having hi ft inl i tnlf.,1 h,.n a ,i 4 ......I hi loaa what good, fttuff ho wis turmziK out. I erhapt wa tnicht Ki't a mine, if our acquaintance, would do likewine. Aw, well, yesterday waa a fine lar( day. Plumb desirable, in fa, t. At hlfh noon the mer cury akidded up to tho 7 dejreit mark, whita earlier In the morninic the hunt amounted to a punfiy 70 dcgreei. It no u lit be of interest to some to know the windn wr from the south and the skies wft nnrtly obliterated with-clouds. Along about beau or mala quartet time hi the evtiiniir it mined ft few aparo drops. For toibw in.d tomorrow wo predict part rloudy woail.er that is if weather rsn be part cloudy. If it asta't we'll jiredirt it any way. 1 1 "Zimmie" Cop)iyaA.ip..xo BE VACAlira'DN Engineers Will Depart for New Quarters at Fort Worth Saturday Morning. AMBULANCERS AWAIT ORDERS Expect Word to Entrain for Long Island Mobilization at Any Time. Camp Sinclair, for two weeks tent ing and drill ground for the Tulsa ambulance and engineer companies, soon is to be deserted. On the heels of the news that the ambulance com pany had been made a unit of tho first division of national guard troops for "Immediate nervlce In France." yesterday came orders to the engi neers to entrain Saturday morning for Fort Worth, Texas, where the Thirty sixth division, to which It belongs, Is to be quartered anil trained. Yesterday was a day of great ac tivity at the camp. Drill, drill, was the program for Hie n mini in ,.. In addition to drilling, the engineers neirfin i. a........... i. . .. . . ..... r. . ,,..,.,,,..1.1. i,M- departure. I hose who could go home ami back by Friday noon were granted fur- lMIII?il f.t .1..., iiii companies are lacking in equipment, -few havim; complete ac coutrements, ami m.inv having mull ing except citizen clothes In which they reported. They do not expect to be supplied until they reach their mobilization points. General orri. ers Named It was learned last night that In ad.l.tlon to Maj. :. Williams A. Mann, the division to which the am-lulaneei-H belong will be officered by the following: Colonel Douglas Mac." Arthur, chief of staff. The brigade coiiimunilers i l.e lirigiidler Gen eral R. A. Iti own, Kighty.s nd In fantry brigade; Krlgti.lier General M .!. l.etiihan, Klghty-thlrd Infantry brigade; llrlgadier General C. p Sunimerail. Sixty-seventh field urtil" 1 ry brigade. Following are the general officers for the Thirty-sixth division, which is being mobilized at Camp Howie, Fort Worth; Maj. Gen. K. St. .1. Greliie commanding, Lieut. Col. K. J Wil liams, chlet of staff; Urigadler Gen eral .1. A. I lulcii. Seventh infantry brigade; llrlgadier General 11 1 1 l'utchings, Seventy-first brigade; llrlgadier General li. Hoffman, Sixty first depot brigade; llrlgadier Genera, G. ltlakely, Sixty-first field artillory brigade. Trapped in Closet, Boy Dies From Suffocation RRI-OIT. Wis. Aug. 1G. After many hours search bv score of far mers for tne two children of Alfred Vardy of Rock county, fanner, they were found locked In a cupbonrd to day In a deserted house near their home., Willie, 5 years old, w-i:; on an upper shelf dead front suffocation. His 3-year-old sister was asleep on a lower fihelf. A snap on the door of the cupboard had locked the children in while thev were nlavlnir vo.Mterilnv afternoon. Fears ItlindiiCNS, Kill Self. CHICAGO. Aug. Hi. Fear that blindness would separate him front the books which he had spent his li'o y the reason for sujclile given by le'.inder Rudolph, for twenty yer.n librarian at the Newberry library here and long engaged In library wo'-k in other cities. His body was found in a downtown hotel louigbt. aftei a search that his wife titi:'ie hen she found notes saying he was golnr to end his life because he feared he wus losing his sight. FARMER RIDDLED BY SHOT DURING QUARREL Meigs Wade Held in Muskogee Jail Charged With Slaying J. C. Lawson. Special to The World. MPSKOGKK, Aug. 16 J. C. Tiw son, 00 years old, a farmer living two and a half miles s,mthei.i ..r Muskogee, was literally shot to plctesl late today by Melts Wade HL'l. ill I who lived on the farm adjoining, af ter the men had uuiirreled over' the division of oats rained on Wade's land by Ijiwson. The shooting n enacted In the oat field over which the fatal quarrel arose. Wade and a party of helpers were thrashing the oats, Wade, having had several quar rels with Itwson, had gone to tno field this afternoon armed with an automatic shotgun. When Lawson entered the field Wado picked no tho shotgun and ordered him off. I,iw son, a slight cripple, whs walking with a piece of broomhandle In his hand. He did not even hesitate when Wade raised tho shotgun to his shoulder and again Issued a warning. "Go ahead, shoot. If you've got the nerve. Shoot," said lawson, advanc ing. The words w re? no tnore tnan utttert! when the shotgun spoke. I.e fore others could reach his side VVude fired fivo tlme point-blank at the crippled man In front of hint. I. iwson fell to the ground with his fare shot Into an unrecognisable mas uvj with his whole) body pepper-'J with shot from tils heud to his let. Not an Inch of the surface of his body failed to receive a shot, accord ing to the statement of undertaker who examined the body later. Wade telephoned Sheriff John 8. Rarger end surrendered and ut the same time ordered an ambuluiico to comn'out nnd get Uwjun'a body. Wade tonight Is held In the county Jail, awaiting a charge of tnordtr which will ho filed Friday. Sheriff Rarger said tonight there is no danger of mob violence. Tho widow and a daughter survive, llolh men wero moderately well off and both have lived here for vverul years. Americans Reported j Wounded Considered ! I Soldiers of Fortune ! WASHING-PIN. Aug. I u.- Of ilcl it reports from luidon early th.s iiiorn li.t that Americans wounded at the front In Prance had I ecu rcicne.1 at the London hospitals cause. 1 a tm ill Washington, lty many it rt-,H lh,i to indicate that Pershing's me.i had gone into action nt last, but when the ineswage was brought to tin ul tentlon i, the w,ir department. It was stated that such was a wrong hi. , position. It was pointed out thai even If Pel siting s men had gone into anion and had been wounded, there was little likelihood that' they would lo taken to 1-oihIihi hospitals. It was siigV-st'Hl that these probably were Americans, thousands of whom have I ecu fighting w.th the allies since curly In the war. I'm titer, It was stated that tho Pulled States would be advised olll cinlly and the lint would be given out for publication, whenever Pershing's men are included In ens:. ally lists. OKLAHOMAN PUT ON FOOD CONTROL BODY Strutton I), r.rooka Will Take Charge of Conservation Work in State. WASHINGTON. Aug. 1 .--Appointment of L'S men as federal food com missioners in as many states was un proved by President Wilson toitai. Comiiilssioners for the other status will be selected by tho food admin istration wltl.ln a few days. The state commissioners will ad minister the food control bill inso far as it applies to state matter and will co-ordinate state food, activities with those of the food administration All of the men will serve without pay The list Includes: Alabiiin.t Rlchnrd M. Ilobblfl Montgomery. Arkansas llamp Williams, IKt Springs Georgia Dr. Andrew M. Sot'lu, Athens. Illinois -Harry A. Wh"eler, Chi cago. Indiana Dr. Harry K. Iturnhurfl, Indianapolis. Iowa .1. F. Deems, Htirllngtnn. Kentucky Fred M. Suckett, 1 ouls Vllle. Louisiana John M. Parkjr, New Orleans. Maryland Kdwin G. !J.iet;r, P.a'tlmore. Nebraska Gordon W. Wattles, Omiihu. North Carolina Henry A. Page, Aberdeen. Oklahoma Dr. Strutton I). Brooks, Norman. VIGILANTES ORGANIZE TO STOP SEDITIOUS SPEECHES New York Starts .Movement Against .Snap-lent Orators; to IV u lion Wide. NF.W YORK, Aug. IB. In an effort to curb treasonable un I seditious ut terances by soap-box orators every man and woman In New York was asked toduy to help organize local vlgilancu committees. Thru the po lice department ono hundred oilier cities in the United States are to be asked to Join tho movement started by tho American defenso society, which announced that the "gutter oratory' In New York must stop. The movement was begun following the arrest of Cleveland Moffet. nuthor and newspaper man, who was arrested by a pollcemnn Ikhii In Germnny when he recently attempted to break up one of the meetings. shotguYdueTIs- fatal Section Foil-limn Killed, Farmer Won nihil Domestic Fuss ( ' use, M1I.11KRRY, Ark., Aug. 1(1. In a duel with shotguns at White Oak, four miles east of here today, Rill Hutchin son, Missouri Pacific section foreman, was killed by lici t Dean, farmer, who was wounded and is under arrest. Roth are married. Domestic troubles lire ascribed by officers as the cause. Fol lowing un urgiiinent at Hutchinson's home nt noon. Dean asked ."for a chance." then went home nnd secured a shotgun nnd the ibicl followed, ac cording to the sheriff of Franklin county, who arrested Dean. SEDITI0NER KILLS HIMSELF lumps From Window While Itclng OucMloncd About Spanish Riols. MADRID, Aug. 11. Luis Correus, under arrest for seditious utterances, threw himself out of a window as he was being Interrogated today by a police offlclul and was killed. Tho police assert they know tho names of nine hundred persons who wero implicated in tho strike move ment In Hnreolona which has caused serious disorders In Spain recently. Several strikers have been injured In an encounter with troops at Saba dell, Catalonia. The Riotlno miners have struck. TULSA YOUTH IS PROMOTED Klmcr M. Slobcr Is Made Sergeant in Mctlicul Corps of 1 H. Army. Following four years service In the medical corps of the United States nrmv Klnier M. Sieber, who was reared In Tulsa and whose parents reside at North Yorktown, has been promoted from a private of -tho first-class to the rank of sergeant. Sieber Is at. mis lime stationed ut .-Syracuse, .N. Y. Negro Lynched. IIFATHSVIL1.K, Vu., Aug. 16.--W 111. 'nil Puge, a negro, accused of at tempting lo uttack two white women t Lillian, Va., was taken from ol'ti ceiH last night and lynched by a n.oo of several hundred tnusked men, ac cording to Information reaching hfre tod.tv. It Is said to be the first lynch Ing In Virginia In IS years. PRUSSIAN LOSSES FRIGHTFULDURING FIGHT AT HILL 70 German Leaders Sacrifice Thousands in Ten Vain Counterattacks. ALLIES AGAIN ADVANCE LanRemarck Among Chief Points Captured by Latest Attack. ENEMY IS GIVEN NO REST French and British Delive; New Stroke Just as Cana dians Win Objective. CANADIAN ARMY 11 ICAt QtTAR T KRS IN FRANCIi, Aug. 16. Tho taking of Hill 70 yesterday stirred tha German higher command us nothing else has done on this front this year. Ten times the enemy came on but they teldoin got close enough for fighting with bayonet or bomb. The Prussian guards were subjected to a terribla concentrated fire from our artillery and luai'hltiH guns. Their losses were frightful. A veterun machine gun officer tell of having had us a target tot an hour and a quarter enemy I enforcements! coming up In columns of fours for uso In counterattacks. lie said his men killed more, Germans yesterday than they had seen altogether at any pre vious time. Prisoners said that tha ground over which their battalions had advanced was thickly strewn with, dead. , No Rest for I'ncmy. Again the great Anglo-French war machine has struck the Germans in Flanders and again It has been sue cissful. Tha village of Uiiineinarek and other important positions i. i taken Thursday und more 'than eighteen hur.dred prisoneis all. .' have been counted. Thn latest blow In the Ypres area was on iv front of nine miles and only on the extreme right were the ull'ed forces unable to make progress. Tho Germans resisted stubbornly, suffer ing heavy losses, but on the greater part of the front they were forced to leave valuable positions In the posses sion of the allies. Rcfore the fighting between I.ciB and Loos had died out the French nnd Prlt'sh moved forw ttd north of the Yyres-Menln road. Thruout Thursday bitter fighting coutlnuen. On the left the French occupied the ground between the Ypres esniil and Martjevnart and then drove the Ger mans fn m the important bridgehead of Dre iTllitchten. Field Marshal Haig's men ea-rlei the rente - and right of thn nttacklmf lino. In the center tho Rrltlnb scon gained tl.el- first obJecilv and then established themselves ' in lAnge marrk. Continuing their at'ack, thty advanced a half mile beyond the vu Inge, gaining a trench nystcm vnlcn was the final objective of the day. (in the right flatiK tho wrman re sistance was most despera'". F.urly In the day tho Rrltlsh drove the Teutons back, but numi r 'nt counter attacks, In which they suffered heav llv, enabled the Germans to regain the lost ground. Canadians Make New Gains. In the Lens sjctor tho Canadians made additional progTess east of Loos and north of Lens. German prisoners to the number of nearly nine hundred were taken in the fighting hre Wednesday and ' Thursday, bringing the allied 'total for the two days to 2,700. In Flinders the Rrltlsh also captured some guns from tho Ger mans. Kxcept for tho continued heavy ar tillery fighting on the Aisne front and near Verdun, a gain by the French south of Allies, north of the Aisne, has been the only Important Infantry ac tion south of Lens. The French cap tured German trenches on a front of two-thirds of a mile, took 120 pris oners and repulsed four German coun terattacks. VARDAMAN SEES ANOTHER CIVIL WAR FOR AMERICA Hectares Wilson Made Mistake In In cluding Negroes in Drafted lighters. WASHINGTON. Aug. 16. Senator Vnrdaman speaking In the senate to day denounced the war as a quarrel Imtween rulers, instigated by com mercial bandits." and a reproach to Christian civilization. He also de nounced tha draft ond declared the president made a mistake when he called the negro to arms. "I malntuln compulsory military training will leave a problem "i this country more difficult of. solution, more disastrous, I fenr, In consequence than the sudden emancipation of slaves a half-century ago," said ho. "I believe tho preservation of ft free government In America will be about as difficult a problem after tho war as to overcome our chief an tagonist Germany now." The speech was delivered In support of Senator Sherman's resolution , for congressional Investigation of the re cent Fast St. Louis race riots. lVlneeton Abniiiloiw Foothall. PRINCKTON, N. J. Af. lu--Ther Will be no varsity football at Prince tor, tills fall, the entire football squad cf lust year and a large part of the three upper classes having enterd tho federal sen ice. The usual fresh, man schedule, however, will be car ried out-