The Daily Oklahoman from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma • 1

VOL 28 NO 67 PRICE IVE CENTS COLD SERIOUS Ordered to i AGE RANGE 3 TO 68 the the ST (riday) The) sent a reply to menace of the foreign REUGEES TO BORDER TELL BIG BATTLE MILITAIIY RULE PROCLAIMED II! SANTO DOMINGO City of 60000 Raises $202 500 Oklahoma $300000 Easy Melvin Drennan a son of IL Drennan head of the II Drennan Grain company of Oklahoma Citv was killed at Phoenix Ariz yesterday af ternoon when a racing' car of which he was mechanician plunged through a fence when passing another car at one end of the oval Drennan who svas 22 years old and unmarried lived at 1133 North Robinson avenue with his parents The father was at the football game when a telegram of his dtjath reached the home A messenger was sent to the fair grounds to notify him Survivors are the parents three sis ters Gladys Geraldine and Elinor and a brother Robert The body will be brought here for burial Armstrong driver of the death car was thrown flear of the wreckage when the machine struck and escaped with minor injuries LONDON Nov 30 The govern decision to assume control of all coal mines in South Wales Decem ber 1 under the defense of the realm act was announced tod late last night to enable commentots as yet to gauge its probable effect The announcement was a surprise to both sides in the controversy Secretary Rich ards of the South Wales miners' feder ation declared emphatically that the miners would oppose such a measure unless it were applicable to the coal mining industry ofthe whole country ARCHBOLD IS VERY WEAK Remnant of One Carranza Army Is Encamped Near Juarez United States Takes Steps to Suppress Political Chaos Santa Rosa Hill Stormed ad Captured by Ban dit orces Condition So Serious That John Rockefeller Postpones Trip TARRYTOWN Nov Because of the illness of John Arch bold president of the Standard OU company of New Jersey who was oper ated uoon a week ago for" appendicitis John Rockefeller today postponed a trip to Lakewood Mr Archbold it was said at his home tonight is still very weak Phy sicians refused to discuss a report that transfusion of blood had been per formed' STEAMSHIP STOKERS RIOT Admiral Du ournet of the British Navy Gave Nation Until Today to Comply With Demands1 Situation Is Grave Greek Government Refuses Surrender Of A rms to Allies QWfrCHr John Hays Hammond BALTIMORE Nov 30 John ITays Hammond the mining engineer of New York who was taken ill here a few dayi ago supposedly suffering from a cold was reported to be in a more serious condition tonight BLUEJACKETS HAVE SITUATION IN HAND Action Is the Result of Care fully Laid Plans of Navy Department Like All Banquets Affair Ends With rolic and Speeches BY CHARLES BRILL Tricking the farmers 'for a touch down in the first four minutes of play smashing through them for another five minutes later and scoring still a third before the first period ended the Uni versity of Oklahoma got a flying start that carried them through to a 41 to 7 victory over the Oklahoma Agricul tural and Mechanical college in their annual scramble on the fair park grid iron yesterday afternoon It was the largest score in this since 1907 avored Aggies If any had doubted the more or less superstitious theory that there is such a thing as a in football or that the Sooners had stolen and securely tied such a species of horned animal once belonging to the Aggies he had his doubt removed yesterday The Aggies went into the game with the in their favor Their record for the year had led thousands to be lieve that the time had arrived when the stalwart farmers from Stillwater would shake off the throttlehold on victory which the Sooners had main tained throughout the past They pre sented a well balanced veteran team a lineup of capable looking athletes But they flivvered Once they came in contact with that Sooner machine their defense crumbled their offense withered and by their ragged playing they demonstrated conclusively that the Sooners had their Record Crowd Present A more nearly perfect day for football could not have been found Scarcely a breath of air was stirring there was a warming sun overhead to comfort spectators and a crispness in the air to prevent the players suffering from hpat Yielding to the call of the weather and the prospect of a brilliant game 7500 persons turned out for the There are many reads to greatness for the modern city but expemnee goes io show that there gsg THE DAILY OKLAHOMAN BS DRASTIC MEASURES ARE NOW IMMINENT Germans Within Sixteen Miles of Bucharest Ru mania and Women and Children Are Leave Carries Dinner to Troops ield headquarters pu nitive EXPEDITION Nov 30 Among the camps along the line of the American punitive expedition there were five at least in Mexico in which there was cause today for Thanksgiving Twelve truckloads of turkeys supplemented by stlch game as could be secured was the principal reason for rejoic ing The "turkey which made a record breaking trip from Colum bus brought enough to fur nish1 each man in the expedition with three quarters of a pound of dressed turkey At field headquarters twenty deer and eighty wild turkeys brought in by Mormon hunters were distributed officered by Americans Revolutions Must Cease High officials made it plain tonight that the Washington government is de termined that there shall be no re newal of the revolutions in Haiti and Santo Domingo which for years have rendered the island a source ot to the international relations United States because of capital invested there Sailors and Policemen in Honolulu are Injured HONOLULU Nov 30 Twenty five stokers from the liner Makura rioted on the dock here today prior to the departure for Sydney and several of the sail ors and a number of Honolulu police men were injured while endeavoring to stop the battle Seven members of the crew of the Japanese steamer Gozan Maru which put in here last night on account of an attack made on the officers by the crew were arrested today and charged with mutiny on the high seas eOVERKOR BEHMS IS KIES STU ive Hundred Accept Invi tation of Chief to Dine With Him Program Auditorium 9 a Rural School of Coates state agent for rural schools rankfort Ky Relation of the Sunday School to Public Wiley general Sunday school sec retary' Southern Baptist convention Muskogee Religious Education of tha American Walter Ath earn professor of religious educa Drake university Des Moines Iowa 4 Announcements 7:30 Orchestra State univer sity Norman Okla Perils By the Shryock president of the Southern Illinois 7 State Normal university Carbondale Ill Vocal solo Miss Maizie Bridges University Preparatory school Ton kawa Children to Strayer professor of educational administration Columbia university I Announcements LONDON Dec 1 Greek government has ice Adiniral Du ournet definitely re fusing his demands for the surrender of arms today according to a Reuter' dispatch from Amsterdam An Athens dispatch to the DailM Chronicle under date of November 30 ascribes the following statement to Vice Admiral Du ournet in command of the allied fleet in Greek waters: Troops to Be Landed "I insist absolutely on the execu tion of my demands and will see that they are realized in spite of all ob stacles rench British and Italian detachments will be landed at all points necessary I will endeavor to avoid bloodshed but will fulfill my mission The Athens correspondent of the Daily Mail interviewed Vice Admiral Du ournet aboard 1 his flagship and quoted him similarly to the correspond ent of the Chronicle The admiral saidl that he did not intend either to seize the arms or? fire upon Greek troops but declared that unless the guns were surrendered he would land large de tachments which would not re embark until his demands were complied with Other coercive methods 1 would be taken at the same time Admiral Du ournet Confident I have most ample forces at my the admiral said some of the heaviest and most powerful artillery in existence I can see no reason why the arms will not be quietly given up" Athens Is Anxious Special dispatches from Athens dated Thursday say there is a growing state of anxiety in the city The Greek garrison seems to have withdrawn in land taking arms ammunition andstores Two regiments left during the night with artillery The dispatches added that there was alarm in the streets Thursday morn ing due to the appearance of bands of reservists but that later it was ascer tained they had been called for serv ice The authorities seemed to be doing their utmost to preserve order oe Sixteen Miles rom Bucharest Butte Cheers Local A Campaign TIANKSGIVING greetings Butte men raised $202500 and more coming Many citizens testify it was the greatest civic achieve ment made by Butte Best wishes for Oklahoma City's abounding suc cess WHARTON Chairman Committee is no surer liighway than the way Butte Mont which successfully con cluded a $200000 campaign for a A building1 Wednesday night tel egraphed the good news to Oklahoma campaign committee yesterday A congratulatory message was re turned by Billheimer local cam paign manager ii is a mining town of only 60 Mr Billheimer said after re ceiving the message a city of that size can raise $202500 with more to come I know Oklahoma City will reach the $300000 mark easily Yes and more to when the cam paign clpses without a doubt consider the progress eft the cam paign to date to be an augury for its successful issue We have been re cording' more than $25 000 a day in pledges To date only about 600 sub scriptions have been reported At least oatxi will tie turned tn lhe cam paign is going with a whoop In fact I believe that we are only beginning to get these team workers and the sub scribers interested Just wait till things warm up arid then watch re sults Mr Billheimer and members of executive committee worked all day yesterday at carripaign headquarters (Contlnnrd or Page Three 1 ELECTION BETTORS ARRESTED New Turn in Political Affairs of Huntsville Alabama I HUNTSVILLE Ala Nov 3O The political feud centering about last sum campaign for the probate judge ship here already credited with the death of three prominent Huntsville men and the conviction of a fourth for murder took a new turn today when it was learned that the county grand jury had voted to irylict fourteen per sons on charges of betting on the judgeship primary Lawler the successful can didate was killed soon after his nom ination and David Overton his de feated opponent is under death sen tence for his murder Another lawyer and the county sheriff committed sui cide apparently because they believed themselves suspected in connection with the killing BUTTE SUCCEEDS WITH UND SEND5 CREETINCS JttESLMK Sooners Ovenvhelmm ORCES LEE WHEN HILLH THUES STRONGHOLD Driest Cars Thrown Off Track By Broken Rail ive neTWA Texas Nov leriond 'p were more or less ahen th? p1 nrf before noon today Wbboune an and tar a Mexico fen 'n on the Kansas City track' amT1 railway left the MzryneaL a dich "ear been du to said to have John r1 0 a 'broken rail "issiorier county cotn which internal injuries rt Is i3d may prove fa tai claratinn vase ot thehaguf vrmany Nov' 301 Stent of declared to the govern 10 Pay dam CtJ1Cr ands ber readiness BJoomersdifk Duch freighter yhtle the rest of to be he vessels cargo Official to a I)r'ze courtfeet today trCtTentwas made to tBl's Bloon)'crs(likhe Associated Press las? OcX V5 SUnk off Nan Birine C'Ober by a German sub AGEs upTn rZ Mak at Newport Newport Annonnment ffkial announe" Nov 30 a Several wai7nent Was matle today 'din? and the Every em participate erage inrcrease Percent some Wd alxve this ahghtly below imrawii President's Address at the Convention Touches Politicians half of delegates ARRIVE IRST DAY Registered Attendance of 5000 Likely General Session Opens JUAREZ Mexico The retrinants of a izista army that fled front Chihuah City after a battle with1 Villa troops1 are in camp tonight on the plains south of 'Juarez They brought with them here the story of the evacuation of the city after four days and nights of fighting The dead were piled high in the streets when they left and had been covered with oil and burned they said Soon after 7 this morning the first troop train brought the ragged survivors of the de facto forces which had escaped to the north Accompany ing this train was a sanitary section consistinof three second class coaches and white hospital car In these cars were more than 100 wounded soldiers of the Carranza command Tha hospitals here are filled with wounded and volunteer nurses are working to care for the officers and men who fell in the battle Cannon Were Saved The troop trains which brought this surviving force to the border left Chi huahua City at 10 :30 Monday morn ing proceeding to a point near Ter razas station where a burned bridge forced them to transfer to another tiain Wednesday he troops brought back many of their field pieces These are parked in the customs house yards with gar lands of beef" hanging front their muzzles Women camp followers shared in the retreat Some of them had children said to have been born on the battlefield There also were a number of civilian refugees on the train but none of them Americans? and fione of those who ar rived here knew positively of the Americans' fate when Villa took pos session of Chihuahua City City Was Abandoned All of the refugees agreed that Car ranza's troops were winning during the first four days of the fighting but either because of a shortage of am munition or lack of morale they aban doned the city early on the fifth morn Continued on Page Three) SOLDIER KILLS HIMSEL Joplin Man Said Rather Die Than Return to Border JOPLIN Mo Nov 3O After de claring to friends that he preferred death to further service on the border Earl Raymond mess sergeant of Company Second Missouri infantry committed suicide here today by drink ing poison He was granted a furlough October 26 when stationed at Laredo Texas and sent several tel egrams to the regiment commander seeking an extension of his furlough He is said to have received no replyRaymond enlisted in Joplin when thq troops were called out last June COUNT SZEPTYCKI APPOINTED Named as Commander of the Polish Legions BERLIN Nov 30 A Posen dis patch to the Overseas News agency re ports the appointment of Count Szep tycki as commander of the Polish le gions The count is a brdther of the Rev Andreas Szeptycki formerly arch bishop of Lemberg who was reported to have been taken away by the Rus sians at the time of their capture of Lemberg and to have been interned in Russia MELViffllNRN KILLED IN RAGE Oklahoma City Boy Was Acting as Mechanician at Phoenix air WASHINGTON Nov Military rule has been proclaimd in Santo Do mingo by the United States navy to suppress existing political chaos in tha little republic by way of guaranteeing future quiet by establishing there such 3 financial and police protectorate as the American government now exer cises over Haiti Eighteen hundred American marines will maintain order for the present and at least until elections are held in Jan uary1 their officers will supervise the conduct of government by native offi 1 cials and disburse the custom revenues Proclamation Calmly Received The navy proclamation issued yester day apparently has been put into effect without bloodshed It was announced here today by Secretary Daniels in the following statement Captain Knapp in commaqd of the United States forces in Santo Do mingo reports that in compliance with Instructions received military govern ment was proclaimed by him in Santo Domingo at 4 o'clock November 29 ztn order regarding carrying arm or having them in possession has been put into effect Payment of salaries of government officials will be resumed immediately 1 he proclamation was well received Conditions are reported as being nor mal and the great majority of the peo 1 pie regard the proclamation with favor 1 Plans Carefully Prepared Although no publicity has been given to the decision to adopt such measures Captain action was the result of plans carefully worked out by state and navy depart ment officials after conference with Minister Russell recalled from Santo Domingo for the purpose and consid eration of full reports from the naval officers on the scene Captain Knapp recently sent to relieve Rear Admiral Pond in Dominican waters carried with him' complete instructions for his task The necessity fora drastic step ha been considered since the overthrow months ago of President Jiminez by General Arias a strongly anti Ameri can revolutionist With Arias in con trol theDominican assembly rederick Enriquez president but the United States refused to recognize the new government and withheld the bal ance of customs revenues left after the regular payments of interest on the foreign debt Consequently the native officials and' employes will drav their first pay since the downfall of Jiminez when on December 2 the American officers begin to disburse some $600 000 of accumulated export duties 1 Rights Not Violated Secretary Daniels explained today that the form of rule set up by Captain Knapp did not contemplate any in fringement of the civil rights or pro cesses of the native government The marines will maintain order and pre vent revolutionary agitation but the municipal and civil laws will still ba administered by Dominican courts Captain Knapp was selected for thi job because of special fitness growing out of his service on the neutrality board The duty led him into a care ful study of the situation in Haiti and Santo Domingo His report says that probably 90 percent of the native busi ness men and other who desire per manent peace on the island approve the steps that have been taken and those which are in contemplation Upon the election of a president by the assembly to be chosen in January the United States will ask for the rati fication of a treaty similar to that now in force in Haiti providing for I American supervision of Dominican fi Monastic Serbia where rain and fog I nances and for a native constabulary fray This is declared by the univer sity officials to be the largest crowd ever present at an athletic contest of any kind in Oklahoma The section of the new concrete grandstand which will accomodate 4500 persons was jammed half an hour before the game started and al the kickoff the over flow of some 3000 persons had walled in the gridiron on all four sides Sev eral times it became necessary to stop the game while officials and cadets cleared the field of hundreds who had encroached beyond the sidelines Delay in starting the gatrie and these interruptions ate up time so that the final period was played in a deep shadow cast by the grandstand and it was nearly dark when the game finally ended Sooners Show Real Class While the Aggies displayed only in flashes the class expected of them and failed generally to make an impressive showing they may gain some solace from the fact that in the team which smothered them yesterday they faced a combination that for thf first time this year was typical of Soonerland Many a university alumnus and under graduate yesterday wished that Bennie Owen could have had the same kind of a team to send against Kansas against Missouri against Texas against the Kansas Aggies or against the Kendall collegians They believed that with such a team they would have come near being all vjctorious this season They are encouraged to believe that next year this same com bination will be able to secure revenge for the five big blots on their 1916 record' i' Aggies Unsteady Unsteadiness in the pinches uncer tainty of what to do and inability to (Continued on Tofe Thirteen) Miners Opposed to Government Control SIXTEEN PAGES OKLAHOMA CITY RIDAY DECEMBER I 1916 a Complete Report on Page ifteen if All ATITC lr ML I Lf ATIALK UN biAlt indent Afrdp nps rn iPiTinirnniDn 1 oes Before Bio Throng Spirited Attack at Opening Carries Owen Machine to 41 to 7 Victory Over armers in Pres ence of 7500 1 The annual convention of the Oklahoma Education association opened in the Auditorium last night with a total registered delegation of 1200 The first general session lastright was attended by 1200 persons most of whom were teachers "Many of the with the long ride yesterday missed the opening Significant as foreshadowing' the toming influence which the association Is destined to play in the educational legislation and administration of the state was the annual address of the president Prof Briles of the state A and college recently pres Idctit of the Ada normal as president if the association took occasion to comment on the administration of the state schools President Briles in particular com mented on the state board of educa He gave statistics to show! that the board has not been conducted with the principles for which it was created On this subject besatd in part: LW'sEl your attention to mother ancientand yet very important 1 woblem connection with our educa aonal system I refer to the method 0 control of our state institutions of Jgher learning The campaign which (Continued onjarg Eleven) Teutonic Consuls Sent rom SyriaATHENS Nov 29 via London Nov leiinrw have £yrla t0 Mata aboard tonsu German bh iult SyerTanBey Turk' Nearly five hundred newsboys clat tered down the stairways to the dun geons of the Lee Huckins and the Skirvin hotels 'at 2 afternoon with clamoring appetites and great glee An hour later they climbed to the street again more slowly than they had descended Their faces were eloquent of a great happiness and satisfaction with all things their pro truding of a great fullness The occasion was Governor Wil Thanksgiving dinner for th newsies of Oklahoma City was the most successful that has been given ranging in ages from 3 to 68 years were the guests Two Processions orm The Oklahoman and Times newsies formed in line at ourth and Broad way 275 strong They marched led by two 3 year olds to ourth and Robinson south on Robinson to Grand avenue cast to Broadway and north on Broadway to the Lee Huckins Several of the larger boys acted as of the and kept their charges in line At the Lee Huckins they were met by 207 other newsies Only 327 could find seats at the Lee Huckins so the overflow 150 were 1 IdKCIi LU U1C OKIIV1I1 in Case of Dutch I Once seated the youngsters vigor ously attacked a menu composed of the following: Turkey dressing and cranberry sauce gravy mashed potatoes hot rolls milk stewed oysters celery pumpkin pie fruit cake brlck lce cream oranges apples bananas grapes assorted nuts and anything (Continued are ear) JAPANESE SOLDIERS DIE 1 130 young Men Killed When Trains Collide TOKIO Nov 30 One hundred and thirty young soldiers have been killed in a Collision of a freight train with the train on which they being conveyed to Aomori a seaport bn the northwest coast 71 1 Newspapers Up One Cent LINCOLN Neb Nov The Lincoln afternoon daily newspapers have increased the price from one cent to two cents a copy on the streets and at news stands The advance in print paper is given as the cause Summary By Associated Press of Offi cial Reports The forces of ield Marshal von Mackensen are almost within shelling distance of the southern forts which protect Bucharest the capital of Ru mania Driving along the railroad lead ing north of Giurgiu Von Mackensen has captured the town of Tzomana six teen miles south of Bucharest and at last accounts was still making progress toward his objective Rumanians orced Back Meanwhile the army of General von alkenhayn is keeping up its pressure against the Rumanians west and north west of the capital in the center hav ing forced the Rumanians to fall back to Glavatziotzu thirtv seyen miles from Bucharest and further north having captured the town of Campulung thus opening the way for the unhindered ad vance of additional troops of the cen tral powers through Torzburg pass in to Wallachia The offensive began by the Russians in the region of Kirlibaba apparently is not impeding to any extent the Teu tonic roads into Rumania Additional gains are conceded to the Russians in this regjon but again it is asserted that they have been dearly paid for in cas ualties The Rumanians on the north and northwest fronts have made pro 1 gress in the Buzeu and Prahova val leys fl British are Repulsed In none of the other theaters has there been any fighting of great in 1 tensity so far as the official reports 1 show The big guns of the belliger 1 ents on the front in rance and Bel 1 gium are still active at various points 1 The only infantry engagement reported far where in an attack on a two mile front the British were re pulsed according to Berlin Both Ber lin and Sofia record the repulse of en tente allied attacks in the region of I arc hindering the In the Russian theater Turkish troops have stopped strong Russian attacks on the Zlota Lipa river in Galicia Germany Ready for Peace The discussed bill providing fop compulsion service of civilians for war service in Germany known pop ularly as the "man bill has been introduced in the Reichstag In intro (Contlnurt! mt'Pax TwoJ pV 'I II 'A' i 1 1 sV 'v Az I He i.