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PALESTINE DAILY HERALD
Vol. XVI. No. 12.
ay Evening, May 3, 1917.
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London, May 3.—The British
transport 'Arcadian was subma-
rined on April the fifteenth, and
two hundred and seueuty-nine
men were drowned.
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Three Drowned on
American Steamer
London, May 3.—Three men were
drowned when the American steamer
Rockingham was submarined, accord-
ing to the report of survivors today.
One boat containing thirteen men is
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still missing.
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British Tanker Sunk.
Philadelphia, May 3.—The Britli-u
tanker Sun has been submarined.
Elks and Others
Are Drilling Now
Some fifty men, members of the
Elks’ Lodge, and others, were on the
streets last night, drilling, and they
put up a good appearance. These
practice drills will be continued from
night to night, and it is expected that
there will be close to one hundred
men in line tonight. If you want the
benefit of this practice, and are a
man that can march, you are invited
o get in line.
Amnesty Granted
The Madera Family
(By Associated Press.)
San Antonio, Texas, May 3.—Presi-
dent Carranza of Mexico has granted
Jhe Mad&ro family amnesty.
To Bee Keepers.
The regular meeting of the Ander-
son County Beekeepers Association
will be held at the court house Satur-
day, May 5, at 1:30 p. m. All mem-
bers. urged to attend, as some im-
portant work is to be done. Visitors
welcome.
J. D. Campbell, Sec’y.
Remodeling Work
Begins on Jail
The contractors begun work yes-
terday to remodel the county jail, and
the work will be rushed with all dili-
This contract calls for a prac-
tically reconstructed interior, with
especial attention to safety and sani-
tation. County Judge Reeves and his
commissioners have given close
study to the needs at the jail, and the
new jail will be a credit to the coun-
ty.
At present there is quite a large
bunch of county convicts on the coun-
ty road, and some good road work is
being done.
Want Military Highway.
<By Associated Press.)
Austin, Texas, May 3.—The senate
today adopted a house resolution
■gmamorallzlng congress to build a mil-
itary highway along the Mexican bor-
der.
Russia Gives the
AlliesAssurance
(By Associated Press.)
Petrograd, May 3.—Russia has as-
- sored her allies, in a note, that the
in government cannot affect
the war.
Texas Container
Day Is Called
<Special to The Herald.)
Austin, Texas, May 3.—Miss Mary
E. Gearing, head of the school of
lu me economics of the -University of
Texas and publicity chairman of the
Texas branch of the United States
army food service, announces a Tex-
as container day. Housewives in all
parts of Texas will be asked to search
their basements, pantry shelves, at-
tics and preserve closets for all con-
tainers available for the preserving of
food products, and Wednesday, May
16, is the day set for the gathering of
these containfera. Owing to the scarc-
ity in the market of both glass jars
and tin cans, all sorts of jars, glasses,
wide-mouthed bottles and tin cans
which have not been cut in opening
will be needed in this campaign for
food conservation. . • •
The procuring of containers is con-
sidered one of the most important
phases of the national food conserva-
tion movement, directed by the Unit-
ed States department of agriculture,
and being carried out in Texas by
the various women’s organizations of
the state. One of the plans of the
campaign is to preserve as much as
possible of The perishable garden,
products, which will begin coming }n
to the markets early in the.-summer,
and to store the surplus amount in a
sort of common storehouse where it
will be kept through the coming food
scarcity, to be sold at a nominal price
to those unable to preserve their
own foods. This can be done easily
in most communities by using the
school house or other convenient
building, the work being supervised
by the local home economics teacher
or the county home demonstration
agent.
The gathering of the surplus con-
tainers into one place - is therefore
necessary to make the movement a
success. It is suggested, in order to
make container day more effective,
that volunteers to form an automobile
corps be called for. In each town,
the housewife after collecting the
containers in her own home, could
telephone a- central^office, and from
this office directions to automobile
owners for collecting them could then
be given.
Member
Associated Press
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BELIEVED BRAZIL WILL
Men Too Old for
Military Service
To Do Their Part
- Wm. H. Nance is today circulating
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a petition, which is being numerously
signed’ by men too old for military
service, or who have passed that age
designated by the government, asking
that they be chosen to act as enroll-
ing officers, and thus help in the
scheme to hastily get up registrations,
enrollments, etc., according to the
plans of the government. The peti-
tion is addressed to the government
through Sheriff Dick Guinn.
■ And this is showing patriotism that
should be appreciated by all patriotic
citizens.
All citizens of this country cannot
join the ranks of fighting men, but
they can dp their bit, and most of
them show an anxiousness to do so.
(By Associated Preaa.)
Rio Janeiro, May 3.—Dr. Lauro
Muller has tendered bis resigna-
tion as minister of foreign af-
fairs. The Brazilian government,
learning that the Germans have
declined the Brazilian minister to
Germany, has declined German
Minister Pauli, who is leaving
here for Uruguay.
Washington’s Construction.
Washington, D. C., May 3.—Dr.
Muller’s resignation is construed by
some United States officials- as con-
struing Brazil’s entry into war against
Germany.
The Brazilian congress convenes to-
day and the president of Brazil ia
expected to lay the international situ- *
ation before it. Dr. Muller is of Ger-
man descent and sympathy, but there-
is no question of his loyalty.
Notice.
Palestine Lodge, No. 873, 'B. P. O.
Elks, will hold regular meeting on
Thursday night, May 3, 1917, at 8
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o’clock sfcarp. All Elks are expected
to be present. Red Letter degree
work will be conferred. .
John Gaffney, E. R.
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Judge Insists On
Closing Testimony
(By Associated Press.) '
Coleman, Texas, May 3.—When
court convened today in the Harry
Spanell case, Judge Woodward told
the counsel that he was “going to
close the testimony in this case by
midnight, and you attorneys might as
well make up your minds to that ef-
fect.”
M. M. Miller of Mission, who testi-
fied for the defense that Colonel But-
ler said to him: “We army officers
let our wives do as they please and
we do the same," told a different
story to Colonel Taggart of the Eighth
Infantry. Regarding this conversa-
tion Taggart testified today. He said
Miller told him Butler’s remark was:
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"We trust our wives and they trust
us to do the right thing."
4ne of six colleges
FOR ARMY TRAINING
largest budget of the war has befcn
prepared by Chancellor Bonar Lapw
Although the intervention of America
in the war is expected to relieve
Great Britain to a large extent of/the
necessity of financing her allies, the
government’s expenditures for the
present year, if tbe war continues,
probably will exceed the cost of pre-
ceding years.
The house is prepared for an in-
crease of the levies on excess profits,.
tobacco and amusements.
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Notice.
The Mothers Club of the; Lamar
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school will meet Friday afternoon at
2:30. Special program prepared by
Miss Georgia McMeans. ~
Reporter.
otice to Applicants for Com-
’ Reserve
lose applicants who have been
certified to attend‘the camp May
8, 1917, will report May 9th in-
stead. v
No more f applications can be
considered. The1 Camp at Leon
Springs has been filled up.
W. R. Leonard,
', Captain 37th Infantry.
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Captain Leonard arrived here again
this morning, and at once issued the
above bulletin. This news came as a
disappointment to quite a* number of
young men who were awaiting the
coming of the captain to make-appli-
cation. On a previous visit here the
captain had some-fifteen or sixteen
applications, and it is supposed these
first applicants will be able to attend
the camp.
Washington, D. C., May 3— Six uni-
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versifies w£re designated by the war
department Tuesday as training
schools for prospective army aviators
, who will be given two or three
months’ instructions in physics, me-
chanics and military drill beginning
1- about six weeks. The schools are
Cornell, Illinois, Ohio State, Cali-
fornia, Texas University and the
Massachusetts Institute of Tech-
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nolpgy. Some of the six thousand
applicants for the army aviation
corps will be selected for assignment
t- the universities after preliminary
physical and mental examinations.
Meanwhile, each of the universi-
ties will send three members of its
faculty to study practical aviation
problems at the Canadian training
school connected with the University
of Toronto.. Heads of- the institu-
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tions, meeting with Brigadier Gen-
eral Gorge O. Squire, chief of army
aviation service, agreed to these
plbns. \[ ’
Herbert C. Hoover
And Food Control
\By Associated Press.)
New York, May 3,—Herbert C.
Hoover arrived here today from
Europe and said he would go imme-
diately to Washington to take charge
or the government food control pro-
gram. He reports that the submarine
menace has made the food situation
in Belgium and Northern France
very grave.—
BRITISH BEGIN
ANOTHER ATTACK
RHEIMS CATHEDRAL
SHOWN TO BE WRECK
y:
Paris, May 3.—Cardinal Lucon, de-
scribing the present condition of the
Rheims cathedral in a letter to a
friend says:
“The outside apse is completely
destroyed, three flying buttresse are
broken, numerous pinnacles are
smashed off or thrown down, the
main body of the edifice in greater
part is knocked down, the walls have
received injuries which threaten their
stability and the towers- are seriOusly
damaged. The roof and vaulting
have collapsed in fiver places, the
transept and chancel are. in ruins atid
the baptismal fonts are yrushed.”
Soldier Killed; Civilian Held.
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El Paso, May 1,—Sergt. Browning
of Company K, Twenty-Third United
States Infantry, was killed last night
in a restaurant. William Evans, a
civilian was arrested in connection
with the shooting.
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(By Associated Press.)
London, May 3.-^-The British began
-“another attack on the "Germans on
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the western front this morning, and
the war office announces that pro-
gress is being made. x
The British attack is a major oper-
i
ation. They progressed toward Fres-
noy and Cherisy and also toward
Bullecourt. Heavy fighting prevails
all along the front from the Hinden-
burg line south of the Sepsee river to
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Acheville Vimy road. This is a front
twelve miles long, and many strong
hostile positions have been captured.
Woodmen Notice.
Regular meeting of Sycamore Capap
No. 26, Woodmen of the World, to-
night, in our new hall, corner of Oak
and Houston streets. A large numbqf
of candidates for initiation, and other
matters of importance. You will want
to hear about the progress of the
campaign for new members. Entire
membership is expected to be present.
Visiting sovereigns welcome".
V Cor.
In National Co-Operation. ,
The Anderson County Medical As-
sociation held a meeting Tuesday
night, and discussed matters in con-
nection with the war situation, and
decided to co-operate fully with th|
national movement on medical pre-
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Texas Ginners Warned. t
(By Associated Press.)
Dallas. May 3—Texas ginners in
convention here today were warned
by President Blalock to guard Ibeir
plants against being dynamited »like
munition factories.
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Germany’s Situation
Worse Than Entetes
(By Associated 1 ress.)
Washington, May 3.—Lt is announc-
ed today that while the entente com-
missioners share the United States’
glarin’ over the submarine mena
they do not think it fatal. The sit
tion for Germany is much worse, they
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Fights Scheduled for Tonight.
• Patsy Cline vs. Johnny Harvey, 10
rounds, at New York. r *'
- Stanley: Yoakum vs. Joe Ramsey.
10 rounds, at Cleveland.
Battling Lahn vs, Samny Waltz: 12
rounds, at Meriden, Connecticut.
Eddie Coulon vz. Mate Jackson, 16
rounds, at Tulsa, Okia.
Willie Beecher vs. Frank Maguire,
10 rounds, at Reading, Pa.
Gompers Says He
Warned Congressman
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(By Associated Press.)
New York, May 3.—Testifying at
the trial of Franz Rintelen, the Ger-
man “master spy,” and seven Ameri-
cans, charged with fomenting strikee
in munitions plants, Samuel Gompers
said today that he warned former
Congressman Buchanan, one of the
defendants, against associating witb
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Herman Schulteis and Henry Martin*
other defendants. He said they were
known in Washington as “political
strikers.”
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Dallas Man Here
Talking Railroad
Representing the Dallas people in
reference to the extension of the
State Railroad, Glenn Stiff, a well-
known railroad promoter, arrived
here yesterday for the purpose of
making an observation of the country
through which the road would run if
extended to Dallas. He made the
trip ffom Dallas via auto, traveling
the proposed route as near as pos-
sible, and stopped in the various
towns to confer with the people. Mr.
Stiff said to a Herald man yesterday
afternoon that his people are inter-
ested, and are endeavoring to find
out what the sentiment of the other
communities is. Today Mr. Stiff, ac-
companied by local people, has been
in tlie county looking over the coun-
try that would be served by the new
road.
It is Expected that some definite
move will follow his visit here.
French Make Mere
Important Gains
(By Associated Press.)
Paris, May 3—The French made
an important gain in Champagne last
night, destroying a German position
in the new lines east of Monthaut and
capturing a garrison of two hundred
Germans.
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Hamilton, W. M. & Hamilton, H. V. Palestine Daily Herald (Palestine, Tex), Vol. 16, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 3, 1917, newspaper, May 3, 1917; Palestine, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1025215/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Palestine Public Library.