Under Present Conditions Develop
ment of Known Oil Lands Blocked
But Bill in Congress Will Bring
Remedy.
WASHINGTON, May 21.—In av
effort to secure a compromise by
which the deadlock on the I aciiic
coast oil situation may be broken, Pa
cific coast publishers have been con
ferring here all day with government
oficials and representatives of oil land j
interests. No conclusion lias been
reached, although a compromise is
indicated by which the stern fight in
congress will be abated to permit im-;
mediate legislation. If no compro
mise comes, it is probable that the
government, acting under the Lever:
bill, will commandeer the California
oil fields within ten days, operate
them, possibly develop new ones and
apport on the supply among the
branches of the government and pri- !
vate industries that stand in need of
the fuel.
The first conference was held yes
terday with Federal Oil Administrator
Requa at New York. Then came a
session here this morning with Chair
man Baruch of the war industries
board, who later in the morning ac
companied the publishers to a session
with Secretary Daniels. The after
noon was given up to a prolonged dis
cussion at the offices of Oil Adminis
trator Requa, in which Chairman Ba
ruch, attorneys for the government in
the California oil land claimants, and
others interested, took part.
The publishers made it clear that
u- der present conditions development
of known but unworked oil fields is
absolutely blocked, while the govern
!.■> nt demands have so reduced the
.-apply from existing wells that essen
t:,.i industries on the Pacific coast,
some of them engaged on war work,
ns well as paper mills, are threatened
with extinction or serious curtailment
of output.
These conditions are the result of
the violent dispute, long continued,
over oil land legislation. 1 he particu
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These springs are five in
number and one of the old land
marks of Alaska. Tim Russians
had a hospital there in 1841,
where they sent patients with
iiseases of the skin and consti
tutional biood disorders.
The temperature averages
145 degrees Fahrenheit at the
Spring. The baths are effica
cious for rheumatism, stomach
and liver troubles, kidney and
bladder diseases, and for consti
tutional disorders.
These springs are in charge
of Dr. F. L. Goddard. The
terms for room, board, and
baths, $2 a day and up. Cabins,
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lar matter in dispute is the manner in
which claimants to Califrnia oil lands
shall be dealt with in the legislation.
Secretary Lane favors more liberal
treatment of claimants on lands now
held to be in navy oil land reserves
than Secretary Daniels will counte
nance. While the dispute has extend
ed over several years, it has been
most violent recently in the house
committee on public lands, which is
making over an oil leasing bill. That
bill, unless the several parties to the
dispute come to some compromise, is
certain to be held up in congress for
a long time.
Today Secretary Daniels indicated a
dispositon to make some concessions,
and so did the oil men who represent
the other end of the dispute. But the
publishers represent the situation as
desperate and heroic action in the way
of commandeering, developing operat
ing and distributing solely by the gov
ernment is not improbable.
Among the publishers participating
in the conferences were Joseph W.
Blethen, Seattle Times; Scott C. Bone,
Seattle Post-Intelligencer; William H.
Cowles, Spokane Spokesman-Review;
V. H. McClatchy, Sacramento Bee;
Harry Chandler, Los Angeles Times;
S. A. Perkins, Tacoma Ledger; C. A.
Morden, Portland Oregonian; R. A.
Crothers, San Francisco Bulletin; S.
L. Kellogg, San Francisco Call; Max
Simpson, San Francisco Chronicle,
and John H. Perry, representing
Scripps papers.
Writing to Senator Jones, Charles
riez, assistant general manager of the
emergency fleet corporation, sets forth
the requirements for the establish
ment of concrete shipyards on the Pa
cific. Such yards must be so located
■ as not to interfere with the present
construction of steel and wood ships,”
•mi ‘labor, transportation and climatic
conditions,” must be of the best.
Mr. Piez says the board now has
only money enough to establish one
yard for concrete ships on the Atlan
tic, but if it gets the money provided
in pending legislation it will establish
four more, two of them on the Pa
cific. He says also that the represen
tatives of the board are now viewing
possible sites, and that the board will
try to have them visit and examine
the proposed Puget sound sites.
The concrete ship division, by the
way, has already definitely promised
Representative Albert Johnson that
these representatives who are now on
the Gulf, will visit Puget sound.
GERMANY
AMSTERDAM, May 18.—The Kol-i
nische Dolks Zcitung. a German publi
cation, is authority for the statement
that up to date only one thousand,
eight hundred and fifty tons of grain
have arived in Germany from
Ukraine. This figure is less than one
fiftieth of what the allies thought the
Germans had imported from Russia
by this time.
AUSTRIAN WARSHIP
WASLATEST TYPE
ROME, May 17.—The battleship
destroyed in the Italian raid on the
Austrian naval base at Pola belonged
to the Veribus Unitus type, which
comprised the largest and most mod
ern vessels in the Austrian navy at
tb.e time the war started. Austria had
four ships of this type, which were
classed as dreadnaughts, and each car
ried crews of a thousand men.
RAILWAY STRIKE OX
IN MANCHURIA
HARBIN, May 2l.—Railway traf
fic in Manchuria is at a standstill, due
to a strike of the employes.
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This Is the Assertion of Secretary cf
the Treasury McAdoo in a Liberty
Loan Address Deliver at El Paso.
Texas.
NEW YORK, May 21.—In com
menting upon Secretary W. F. Mc
Adoo’s recent liberty loan campaign in
Texas the Wall Street Journal says:
“At El Paso Secretary McAdoo re
cently said: ‘The United Staes has
gone to the very limit in dealing with
Mexico.’
“This is more than any newspaper is
allowed to say; but Mr. McAdoo must
have knowledge. Does he base his
statements upon the shootings over
the Mexican border, or the trials and
tribulations of the United States in
trying to keep arms and munitions
away from Mexico? Capt. Paulsen
was convicted in San Francisco of
shipping 10,000 rounds of munitions
and several pistols from San Francisco
to Mexican points in violation of the
president’s proclamation. Or upon the
misuse of arms which Carranza made
by starting trouble in the oil fields the
moment President Wilson permitted \
him to import a few cartridges?
“Or does Mr. McAdoo know that tire j
big wireless station in Mexico City
talks with Germany and supports the j
Bei lin boast that by wireless Germany
is still in touch with all the world?1
Or does Mr. McAdoo know something |
of the number of German reservists
that have in times past been ordered,
from this country into Mexico?
“Mr. McAdoo may know something
more than the American public is per
mitted to know of the disorder in the
Mexican oil fields traceable to German
propaganda—disorder which threatens
interruption to the oil supplies which
must fuel the ships which the United
States is now building. Or does Mv.
McAdoo now view with alarm the Ger
man propaganda and diosrder at Tam
pico, where Gen. Nafarette, acting
governor of Tamaulipas, was assassi
nated by a stab in the back, thus
giving excuse for Mexican mobiliza
tion of troops at Tampico, where no
arms of any kind are permitted to
British or American interests whose
supplies and communications in the oil
fields are raided every little while by
contending revolutionary and govern
ment forces?
“Or does Mr. McAdoo have knowl
edge that the German propaganda is
insidiously behind the attempted en
forcement in taxation of the German
I. W. W. constitution in Mexico, which
forfeits British and American titles in
the oil fields?
“Having levied taxes of 20 per cent
or more upon oil production in Mexico,
in violation of Mexican concessions
and contracts with American owners,
Carranza, now proposes a rental tax,
receipt for which might be considered
as practicalyy quitting American own
ership and title to that which is vital
to the allies and to the American naval
and merchant marine of the future.
“Mr. McAdoo and every good Amer
ican hopes for peace in Mexico, ami
wants nothing else. But, as Mr. Mc
Adoo now intimates, there is a limit.”
FRENCH NEWSPAPERS
DELIGHT IN ANECDOTES
PARIS, May 22.—The French pa
pers delight in anecdotes of the good
relation between the American sol
diers and the peasants. One of these
stories, with which General Pershing’s
name is coupled is printed this week.
“A big American military automo
bile tore through a French village yes
terday on its way to an American
camp,” says a Lyons paper. “Unfor
tunately a pig belonging to an old
peasant woman strayed into the path
of the car and was killed. The old lady
was heart-broken. But a few days
later a letter came for her enclosing
a check for a hundred francs, and say
ing how sorry the writer was for the
death of the pig.
The signature was that of General
Pershing.”
Lieutenant Frank Baer, Most Timid
of Four Sons, Proves Worth on the
Fighting Line and Wins Designa
tion as “American Ace.”
MOBILE, Ala., May 21.—Lieuten
ant Frank Baer, member of the La
fayette Escadrille who has just won
designation as an American “ace” by
official recognition that he has
brought down five German airplanes,
is described by his father as “the most
timid of four children. But fighting
has been Paul’s game for some time,”
the parent continued.
How Lieutenant Baer achieved his
ambition was described by the lieuten
ant in a recent letter to his father, A.
E. Baer, an engineer of the Louisville
and Nashville railroad.
Lieutenant Baer told his father in
his letter dater March 18, that he had
had five combats in the previous ten
days. Three bullets hit his machine
but he shot down two Germans, “and
perhaps another not yet confirmed,”
Previous to winning this “ace”
Lieutenant Baer wrote:
“Well, dad, at last I got my first
‘official’ German airplane. Day before
yesterday (March 11, (! p. m.) 1, unac
companied, was flying inside the Ger
man lines. As time drew near for me
to come home, as I had been out my
full time, and while almost at our
lines, the French sent up a signal to
me which told me in what sector the
Boche were. I turned around and was
greeted by seven German planes. Part
of the enemy machines were above me
and part of them below. 4
“Well, I only had enough gasoline
for ten minutes more flight, and I was
six or eight kilometers inside their
lines.
“I pointed my machine at the clos
est one to me, and as I got right on
him I opened up with my machine gun
and down he went. The rest of them
came at me and at the same time 1
sure did some ‘scientific retreating.’
Well, the Hun I killed is ‘official’; that
is 1 got credit for killing him. He
fell about seven kilometers in his own
lines, but the French saw him hit the
ground.
“The next morning, March 12, at
9:25 o’clock, I speared another Hun.
It was in just about the same place
as the first one I killed. He was about
ten or eleven kilometers within his
lines when he fell. 1 saw him crash
into the ground. He was one of a
patrol of live Boche. Again 1 had to
do some ‘scientific retreating.’ I had
all of them on my tail. Their bullets
were flying all around me. However,
I got home. The second one is not
yet ‘official.’ I do not know if it wilt
be officially recorded, but 1 hope so.
“1 really have four Germans that
I have bagged in the air, but credit
for only one so far. 1 have had five
combats in the last five days, with
three bullets in my machine. But I
shot down two Germans and perhaps
another one not yet confirmed.”
Lieutenant Baer has two brothers in
the service of their country. Arthur
Baer is a quartermaster aboard the
cruiser Charleston and A. W. (Bud)
Baer is in the gun sighting depart
ment, Navy Yard, Washington. A. W.
Baer served two years on one of Uncle
Sam’s submarines.
CANNERY SHIPS
CROWDED ASHORE
PORTLAND, Or., May 20.—A wire
less message from Alaska today says
that the cannery packets W. B. Flint,
Star of Chile and Centennial have been
crowded ashore by the ice in Bristol
bay, in the Bering sea. It is believed
that the ships can be floated when the
ice clears.
SHIPS HAVE “MOVIES.”
LONDON, May 20.—Eighty ships
of the British fleet are now equipped
with moving-picture apparatus for the
entertainment of their crews.
UNITED STATES HAS TWO DUTIES, ASSERTS CHIEF
EXECUTIVE. FIRST, TO WIN THE WAR; SECOND,
TO WIN IT GREATLY AND WORTHILY—MONSTER
AUDIENCE CHEERS NOBLE SENTIMENTS.
NEW YORK, May 20.—“The United States faces two du
ties: First, to win the war; second, to win it greatly and wor
thily,” declared President Wilson, in a rousing address de
livered before a monster audience in New York city Saturday
night, the occasion being the opening of the Red Cross drive
which started this morning. The president reviewed at length
the noble work of this great organization and paid a high trib
ute to Henry P. Davison, active head of the society, whose s^lf
sacrificing efforts have largely been responsible for the huge
success which has attended the organization’s efforts.
The president said, in part:
“The United States is determined to set no limits or re
strictions on the number of men to be sent to France. As many
will go overseas as ships can be found to carry them. The
United States will not be diverted from its war aims and
activities by the insincere talk of peace from the Teutons.
Their proposals spring from a desire to have a free hand in
the east.
“The United States intends to stand by Russia, as well as
by France and Belgium, and Serbia, and all other allies in
this great war for the emancipation of the liberties of the
people.
“The United States faces two duties; first, to win the war;
second, to win it greatly and worthily.”
The president’s speech was greeted with repeated ap
plause. lie was compelled to wait for several minutes before
proceeding, at certain intervals, after making a telling point.
His preroration was the occasion for a monster demonstration,
in which the entire audience arose and cheered.
Henry P. Davison, of the house of J. Pierpont Morgan &
i 'o., active head of the Red Cross society in the United States,
was among those on the platform. Others included James W.
Girard. former ambassador to Germany; Henry Morganthau
and Abraham Elkus, former ambassadors to Turkey; Mayor
I'vlan, of New York city, and others of equal note and dis
tinction.
GERMANS BADLY BEATEN.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, May 20.
—The Hermans attempted a vigorous silent raid on an Ameri
can group last night, in the Ludevilie sector, but were badly
beaten and retired to their trenches, leaving wounded and dead
on No Man’s Land.
GERMAN SUBMARINE REACHES SPAIN
MADRID. May 20.—The German submarine U-39 reached
Oariagena, Spain, last night, in a damaged condition, the vic
tim of a British or American depth bomb. The U-39 is the sub
marine that sank the American steamship Lusitania.
ANOTHER ARMENIAN MASSACRE
L()N1M )N, May 20.—.V dispatch from Tiflis today says that
the Turks resumed the offensive along the Caucasian front. A
massacre of Armenians lias begun.
DOWN TWO GERMAN FLYERS.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, May 20.—
American aviators downed two hostile aeroplanes yesterday, in
eoifai lighting above the American front.
Second Drive for Hundred Million Dol- \
lars Starts Off With Kush in
Nation’s Capital—Big Men Behind i
Move.
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 20.—
The Red Cross, the nation’s mercy or
ganization, launched its second drive j
for a hundred million dollars this
morning at the nation’s capital. Presi
dent Wilson, all members of the cab-1
inet, Cardinal Gibbons, General Persh
ing, commander of the American:
army in France; Admiral Sims, in
charge of the naval forces in Europe,;
and other prominent men of the
United States, endorsed the appeal for
funds.
President Wilson describes the con
tributions as the discovery of a new
opportunity of helpfulness under con- j
ditions which translate opportunity
into victory.
TEUTONS MAY DEPOSE KING.
LONDON, May 18.—The London ;
Mail says the Teutons have decided!
to dethrone King Ferdinand of Ru
mania and install a ruler of their own
choice.
Viceroy Issues Proclamation in Which
He Requests All Loyal Irish
men to Aid in Defeating Con
spiracy.
DUBLIN, Ireland, May 18.—A pro
clamation issued by the viceroy of Ire
land last night, declared that a wide
spread German plot has been discov
ered, looking toward a revolution in
the Emerald isle. In his proclamation,
the viceroy calls upon all loyal Irish
men to aid in the defeat of the con
spiracy.
URGES VOLUNTARY RECRUITING
LONDON, May 18.—A dispatch
from Dublin to the Exchange Tele
graph company of London, says that
the proclamation issued by Edward
Shortt, chief secretary for Ireland, as
serts that certain persons in that
country have been in constant com
munication with German authorities,,
looking to the starting of a revolution.
He urges voluntary recruiting, so that
compulsory draft measures may be
avoided in Ireland.
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