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GALVESTON, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1919-TEN PAGES
VOL. 39.
NO. 31.
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CLOSE TALIAFERRO FIELD.
THE WEATHER
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OIL PRODUCTION
U. S. GETS U-BOATS.
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MARTIAL LAW AT POSEN.
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children.
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the
FORECAST.
For Galveston
By Associated Press.
Basel, Jan. 1.—German authorities in
German Poland have declared Posen
under martial law, according to a re-
nort received here from Posen.
WARSAW IS SCENE OF
SANGUINARY CLASHES
PEACE AND THE OPEN
DOOR, JAPAN’S POLICY
NEW YEAR IS GIVEN MORE
THAN USUAL NOISY GREETING
R72Y%
POLISH LEADERS
BLAME GERMANS
: FRANCE SENDS GREETING AMERICAN TRANSPO
GOES ASHORE; TROOP!
ARE BEING TAKEN OFF
The First National Bank
1865—01 GALVESTON—1919
The Oldest National Bank in Texas,
Paderewski Reception An-
gered Teutons.
Washington, Jan. 1.—The transport Northern Pacific, aground
off Fire Island, sailed from France Christmas Day with 2.400 troops,
including the Eighth trench mortar battery of the Eighth division,
and a large number of sick and wounded and casuals. The identity
of the other units was not given in dispatches to the war department
announcing the departure of the vessel.
WILSON'S REPLY
TO CLEMENCEAU
General Rioting Occurs at
Norfolk, Va.
SOCIAL DEMOCRATS
ARE GIVEN POSTS
MIDNIGHT FROLIC
RESULTS IN DEATH
DID NOT PAY RENT
FOR THE TRENCHES
AMERICANS TAKE
' RUSSIAN TOWN
LENDING POWER
OF LAND BANKS
CONTRAST BETWEEN
TWO DECLARATIONS
TRAFFIC BLOCKED
IN NORTH TEXAS.
STREET FIGHTING
RESULT OF TAUNTS
POGROMS IN POSEN,
IS BERLIN REPORT
Everybody in Town Joins in the Celebration-Whistles
Furnish Full Share of Welcoming Din
for Little Old 1919.
Captain Tardieu Denies
Rumors.
Would be Increased Under
Proposal.
Enter the Ebert Cabinet at
Berlin.
Warsaw Version of Posen
Riots.
Poles Direct Fire Upon
Synagogue.
Paris Papers Have Little
to Say.
Manchester Speech Re-
garded as Such.
Troops Fire Upon Polish
Bolsheviki.
By the Associated Press.
New York, Jan. 1.—The troopship Northern Pacific, with more
than 2,400 American officers and soldiers returning from France,
went aground early today at Fire Island, Long Island.
Rescue vessels have been sent to Fire Island with instructions
to remove the troops who are wounded.
The weather at the time the Northern Pacific went off her course
was thick off Fire Island, which is known among mariners as “the
graveyard of the Atlantic coast.” A chilly south wind was blowing
and rain fell at times.
The exact location of the vessel’s grounding was between Fire
Island and Point of Woods—about two miles east of the former
place.
At 9 a. m., nearly six hours after the Northern Pacific grounded
a half mile off shore, it was stated officially that she was not in a
dangerous position and that it was hoped to float her at high tide
this afternoon. Meanwhile, the work of removing all those on board
except the -ship's crew proceeded.
Rescue craft included the United States cruisers Columbia and
Des Moines, the transport Mallory, the hospital ship Solace, six de-
stroyers and five tugs. The tugs went alongside the Northern
Pacific, took aboard the troops and transported the sick to the Solace
and the Mallory, and the well ones to the cruisers and destroyers.
On the Northern Pacific, which is a navy transport of 8,255 tons
gross, were 1,679 troops who are wounded or sick, 625 troops who
are well, 17 navy nurses, 75 sailors, 73 army casual officers and
eleven naval casual officers—in all, 2,480 men and women.
Baron Makino Outlines
Program.
Heavy Losses Feared by
Stockmen.
HELP YOUR GOVERNMENT
by purchasing Thrift Stamps and
War Savings Certificates. For sale
at all banks and by all postmen.
4% Interest, Compounded Quarterly.
HUTCHINGS, SEALY & CD.
BANKERS
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Advance Southward on
Northern Front.
Fort Worth, Tex., Jan. 1.—Taliaferro
field, the biggest aerial gunnery school
in the world, has been ordered closed.
More than 10,000 acres were under ease
to the government for gunnery pur-
poses.
WISHES YOU ONE AND ALL A
HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS
NEW YEAR.
Gain of Three Per Cent Over 1917 Rec-
ord Is Made.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Jan. 1.—Preliminary es-
timates of the geological survey made
public, indicate that the quantity of pe-
troleum marketed from oil wells and
field storage tanks in the United States
this year amounted to more than 345,-
500,000 barrels, an apparent gain of
three per cent over the record output
of 335,315,601 barrels in 1917.
The surface reserve of crude oil
held by producers and pipe line com-
panies at the end of this year was es-
timated at 123,000,000 barrels, compared
with 150,000,000 barrels at the end of
1917
were deeply
Warsaw, Monday, Dec. 30.— (By the
Associated Press).—Forty-seven per-
sons have been killed in the streets of
Warsaw in consequence of number of
clashes which occurred between troops
and revolutionists. The city is at high
tension over the shooting today and
yesterday by the troops of red revo-
lutionists who were holding demonstra-
tions in favor of the liberation of sev-
eral interned bolsheviki..
This is the frist time that such dras-
tic measures have been taken here. A
state of virtual matrial law exists with
the soldiers of ‘the newly-formed na-
′ tional army and the municipal guard
Paris, Dee. 3t.—(By the Associat-
ed Press).—President Poincare to-
day sent the following message to
the people of the United States:
"I thank the Associated Press for
giving me the occasion of sending
once more to the United States a
token of my admiration.
“France is very grateful to the
American people for the great part
they have taken in the struggle
for right and freedom in the vic-
tories obtained by the allied armies.
"I have several times visited the
American troops. I have seen them
especially when they liberated St.
Mihiel and when they were fight-
ing before Verdun, I have observed
their splendid bearing, their cour-
age, their high spirits, and their
smiling contempt of danger.
“I have seen them also in the
towns and villages where they had
their cantonments. They were much
beloved there by the inhabitants. I
recollect, for instance, that in
“musical murmur of a great crowd.”
While every one was alert for the first
intimation that 1919 had made his ad-
vent, no one appeared to be interested
in anything other than having a good
time, laughing the old year out. Here
and there an attempted rough play was
scowled away, a half-uttered song
swelled above the din, the shrill whistle
of some "newsie" punctuated the kaleid-
scope of noise.
Suddenly, out of the west came the
raucous blast of the waterworks fire
whistle, and then, as the novelist would
say, pandemonium broke loose. As if
from one concerted signal, tin horns,
bells, cannon crackers, rattles, whistles,
everything capable of producing noise,
came into evidence as if by magic. The
entire world had gone mad. The water-
works whistle was soon joined by the
whistles of all the fleet of ships at the
wharf front, all the city industries
which had kept up steam for this par-
ticular purpose. Then the church bells
chimed in their melodious notes, while
people shouted and danced, forgetful
for the moment of all things excepting
the arrival of the year 1919.
The brilliantly lighted store win-
dows, the bright colored costumes
of the ladies, the military uniforms, the
happy-faced crowds, formed a dazzling
picture for the eyes, while the ears
wire greeted with ten' thousand dis-
cordant noises which, by some immut-
able law of harmony, blended together
in a great diapason of rhythm, a can-
tata of greeting to the newborn king.
It may be the Galveston atmosphere,
or it may be any one of a million dif-
ferent things offered to explain the
phenomena, but nevertheless it is true
that this morning, that is, after the
participants in last night’s reception to
the New Year had negotiated several
hours of sleep, no one felt any the
worse for having forgotten the insist-
ent years, forgotten conventionality,
forgotten skin-deep dignity and played
the hoyden on the streets of Galves-
ton. Today most of last night's revel-
ers are taking a mental inventory of
their frailties and forming resolutions
for the new year so noisily ushered in
last night, but it is a safe venture that
among the thousands of resolutions si-
lently registered there is not one for-
bidding the indulgence in another mid-
night pandemonium when the good year
1919 shall have served its time and
made its exit.
By Associated Press.
Fort Worth, Tex., Jan. 1.—With the
temperature 23 above zero in Bort
, Worth and with the ground covered
with sleet, the winter's worst blizzard
covers West and Northwest Texas to-
day. Traffic in some sections west of
here is practically blocked and relief
has been sent for snow-bound trains
from here. Work in the oil fields has
been paralyzed by the cold, and heavy
losses are feared by the stock interests.
•hours after that of the premier has
led to a contrast between the two dec-
larations as sharply defining two op-
posing viewpoints on the subject of
balance of power among the nations.'
The textual copy of the premier’s
speech on Sunday night is now avail-
able and gives the following reference
on this subject:
“There is an old system which ap-
pears condemned today and to which
I do not fear to say that I remain
faithful at this moment. Countries
have organized the defense of their
frontiers with the necessary elements
and the balance of powers."
Great disorder broke out in the cham-
ber at this point and Pierre Prizon, a
Socialist deputy exclaimed:
“This is the system which has gone
into bankruptcy.”
Premier Clemenceau continued, say-
ing:
, “This system appears to be condemn-
ed by some very high authorities. Nev-
ertheless, I will remark that if such a
balance had preceded the war—that if
America, England, France and Italy
had got together in declaring that
whoever attacked one of them must ex-
pect to see the three others take up
the common defense.”
The premier was interrupted here by
applause and disorder in the chamber,
but later resumed:
"There is in this system of alliances
which I do not renounce, I say it most
distinctly, my guiding thought at the
conference, if your body permits me
to go there, and I believe that nothing
should separate after war the four
great powers that the war has united.
To this entente I will make sacrifices.”
The statement of the French premier
is looked upon as foreign to the state-
ment made a few hours later at Man-
chester by President Wilson when the
president said:
“If the future had nothing for us
but a new attempt to keep the world
at a right poise by a balance of power,
the. United States would take no inter-
est, because she would join no combi-
nation of power which is not a com-
bination of all of us.”
The French papers have refrained
from discussing the difference of the
viewpoints resulting from M. Clemen-
ceau's speech, except the Socialist or-
gan, Humanite, which says:
Continued on Page Five.
By Associated Press.
Copenhagen, Jan. 1.—Progroms oc-
curred in Posen on Sunday, according
to a Berlin dispatch received here.
Youths raided Jewish homes, killed
thirty persons and wounded many, it
is said. The Jewish synagogue at
Posen is reported to have been de-
stroyed.
The Berlin Tageblatt says that dur-
ing the fighting at Posen on Saturday,
Jews fired upon Poles from the syna-
gogue, whereupon the Poles directed
artillery fire at the edifice, which was
filled with worshipers.
Berlin newspapers print long stories
detailing incidents of the fighting in
Posen, and it is alleged, among other
things, that the Germans were attacked
and robbed in the streets and that their
houses and shops were plundered.
“Thus not only between our ar-
mies, but also between the Amer-
ican troops and French citizens
have been formed most intimate re-
lations and ties which will remain
indissoluble even after the war.
"Both our nations had already
been brought together by the re-
membrances of your war for inde-
pendence—by the similitude of our
political and public institutions, by
our democratic traditions, and by
natural sympathies and by affinities
of mind and culture.
“But now we know each other
still better. We have lived togeth-
er, we have defended together the
same sacred cause; we together
have saved mankind; we are friends
forever.
“We are now to make use of this
friendship for settling in full ac-
cord with England and Italy and
the other nations which fought at
our side a just and lasting peace
w hich shall repair injury and spoli-
ation and prevent any offensive re-
turn on the part of powers of con-
quest and domination.
“I am convinced the unity of feel-
ing will be complete and continu-
ous between the United States and
France during the conference
which shortly will be held there
in order to establish the conditions
of pence.”
■1 am very glad that President
Wilson will take part in the im-
portant work of the peace confer-
ence. France has full confidence in
his enlightened judgment and his
lofty conscience. She has suffered
long and terribly for the sake of
justice. She knows the United
States will not forget the sacrifices
she has made.
“France is ready to prepare, side
by side and in unison with the
great sister republic, a better and
brighter future for humanity.
“RAYMOND POINCARE.”
Nancy the people
touched by the
By Associated Press.
London, Jan. 1.—Announcement of
the retirement of three independent So-
ciallists from the Ebert cabinet and the
appointment of Gustav Noske and Herr
Wissel, Social Democrats, has been .
made by Germany in a wireless mes-
sage received here. The first part of
the proclamation reads:
“Paralyzing discord overcome. The
government of the empire is again
formed in unity. It knows' only one
law for action—the welfare, stability
and indivisibility of the German re-
public before every party considera-
tion.”
Premier Ebert and Phillip Scheide-
mann, secretary of colonies, set forth in
the proclamation their program, which
includes the creation of a militia force,
the disarming of persons not entitled
to carry weapons, the attainment of
peace as speedily and on as favorable
conditions as possible, and the dispatch
abroad, as representatives of the Ger-
man republic, of “new men filled with,
the new spirit."
Richard Barth, secretary of the Ger-
man Independent Socialist party, re-
gards Gen. Groener, the successor of
Gen. Ludendorf, as the leader of a
militaristic counter-revolutionary move-
ment, according to the Express, which
prints an interview that its Berlin cor-
respondent secured with Barth.
Gen. Groener. it is said in the inter-
view, is thought to have been given
secret orders by the military leaders
with the intention to restore the mon-
archy, but Herr Barth could not say
whether, after the former emperor’s
"cowardly flight,” it would aim at re-
storing the Hohenzollerns to power.
Asked by the correspondent whether
the people were likely to support a
monarchist government, Herr Barth is
quoted as saying:
"The German Michael is a strange in-
dividual. He adores today what he de-
tested yesterday.”
patrolling the streets. Cavalry and
light artillery are active and the artil-
lery has been holding target practice
in the outskirts of Warsaw, the boom-
ing of which is intended as a warn-
ing to revolutionists who are suspected
of an intention to seize the govern-
ment.
The arrival from Posen of Ignace
Paderewski, who has been proposed as
president of the republic, has served to.
strengthen the hands of the authori-
ties who are now passing through anx-
ious days and nights.
By Associated Press.
Paris, Jan. 1.—The declaration made
by President Wilson in his speech at
Manchester Monday against balance of
power among the nations is regarded
in his American quarters here as a di-
rect rejoinder to the speech of Pre-
mier Clemenceau in the chamber of
deputies in which he declared his sup-
port of the “balance of power” idea
and his purpose to make his guiding
thought in the peace negotiations.
Whether it was intended to be so,
it is not known, but the president’s
speech coming within twenty-four
By Associated Press.
Warsaw, Monday, Dec. 30.—■German
Soldiers are blamed by Polish leaders
for the fatal rioting at Posen last
Thursday in a statement given out to-
night, setting forth the Polish version
of the trouble there.
It is said that at 5 o'clock Thursday
afternoon German soldiers recruited in
Posen, angered at the reception given
Ignace Paderewski by the Poles, formed
a counterparade, shouting “Posen is a
German town.” They began, it is
charged, to tear down allied flags and
to sing “Die Wacht Am Rhein" and
“Deutschland Uber Alles.”
The Poles resented this and the street
fighting ensued. Herr Dorfanti, a
Polish member of the German reichstag,
addressed the Poles in City Hall square
and induced many of them to go to
their homes. A short time later, it is
stated, German soldiers, headed by an
officer, appeared with machine guns
and fired upon the crowds remaining
in the square. Forty-seven persons
were killed, the statement says.
The trouble has delayed the depar-
ture of Paderewski for Warsaw.
Renewed activity by Ruthenian and
Bolshevist forces at Lemberg is re-
ported in an official statement issued
by the Polish army headquarters here.
They are said to be attacking vigor-
■ ously south of that city with heavy
German artillery. The Poles are said
to have been forced to fall back. It is
said that the forces commanded by Pet-
lura, Ukrainian peasant leader, are join-
ing in the attack.
It is possible that if more troops are
sent to Lemberg the expedition against
Vilna, reported in bolshevist hands, will
be embarrassed. There are not men
enough for both operations. The Polish
chief of staff has been unable to main-
tain communication with the allies be-
cause of the use of the wireless tele-
graph by the Germans. He is also un-
able to use the telegraph and, in addi-
tion, has no code for laying the situa-
tion before the allied commanders.
Former soldiers and prisoners called
on Premier Morazewski this morning
and informed him they were ready to
fight if they were given their back pay
so they might care for their families.
In spite of the tense situation the city
was quiet today and nothing was heard
from the revolutionists. The trouble,
however, may break out again at any
moment. The revolutionists are well
equipped with rifles, motor cars and
artillery, but it is not believed they will
succeed in seizing the government if
Brig. Gen. Joseph Pilsudski, the Polish
dictator, remains firm.
By the Associated Press.
Archangel, Tuesday ,Dec. 31.—Amer-
ican troops yesterday recaptured the
village of Kadish on the middle sector
of the Northern Russian front and to-
day pushed forward their lines a dis-
tance of two miles south of the village
in the direction of Vologda.
This winter’s push, which was
against strong- resistance was under-
taken simultaneously with a movement
southward by the allied troops along
the Onega river. The. Onega column
rested today at the village of Gogoli.
The recapture- of Kadish was mark-
ed by some heavy fighting in which,
however, the American casualties were
light. This village, which is located
about midway between the Vologoda
railway and the Dvine river was
strongly defended and the bolshevik
there used blockhouses built by the
Americans and British when they OCm.
cupied the town in November, prior to
being driven out by large forces of
bolsheviki.
Beginning Monday morning with an
artillery attack, the Americans ad-
vanced across the frozen Emtsa river
where their positions have for more
than a month been located in icy dug-
outs on the bank of the stream, border-
ing the destroyed bridge at the cross-
ing' of the Petrograd road. They cross-
ed the stream and cleared the bolshe-
viki trenches and machine gun em-
placements on the opposite bank.
The Americans then pushed forward
two miles to the village, fighting their
way under the protection of Canadian
artillery which was able to place shells
almost at will in Kadish. The fur-clad1
American flanking parties in the frozen
swamps bordering on the read con-
tributed materially to the American
success.
The recapture of Kadish gives the
American troops a good winter position
in the blockhouses they have built.
Since the retirement from the town
early in November, the troops in this
sector had virtually no shelter, the
front line being unable to build fires
for fear of the artillery and snipers
on the opposite bank of the narrow
Emtsa river.
Preparation for yesterday's attack on
Kadish was carried out under condi-
tions met with nowhere except in a
semi-Arctic wilderness. A battery of
heavy howitzers had to be brought on
sleighs eighty miles on a rough trail
through the wilderness.
Today the Americans, Russians and
Poles on this sector are confining their
efforts to strengthening their positions.
By Associated Press.
New York, Jan. 1.—“Japan will enter
the peace conference pledged to a pol-
icy of peace and the ‘open door’ in the
Far East, in the maintenance of which
she will welcome the co-operation of
the allies,” Baron Nobuaki Makino, of
the Japanese, peace commission, de-
clared on his arrival here with fellow
delegates, attaches and secretaries on
the way to France.
His country’s course in her foreign
relations, said the baron, who is a
member of the Japanese house of peers
and the advisory council of diplomatic
affairs, will be such as to insure the
most effective partnership with the as-
sociated powers in the work of recon-
struction. Having established peace in
the Orient by clearing Germany from
the Far Eastern bases, and keeping the
Pacific open to commerce, he added,
Japan is fully in accord with the allies
for a‘ just and lasting world peace.
Baron Makino asserted that “Every-
thing I have seen and everything I
have heard from my countrymen since
I arrived on your shores has tended to
indicate even closer and more sym-
pathetic relations for the future than
have prevailed in the past."
For the last six months, the baron
stated, disturbed conditions in Russia
and Siberia, as well as the activities
of enemies’ agents whom it was im-
possible to eliminate altogether, coupled
with the-disagreement between north
and south China, had caused some un-
easiness, but the surrender of Germany
had lifted a great load from the whole
country. The commercial delegates, he
said, appeared to be quite confident that
the conference at Versailles would re-
sult in the establishment of improved
conditions throughout the Far East.
Fair and colder
tonight, with
lowest tempera-
ture about 28
degrees. Thurs-
day fair.
For East Tex-
as: Fair and
colder tonight in
east and \ south
portions; cold
wave at Port
Arthur and
There appears to be neither rhyme
nor reason in telling the people of Gal-
veston that the people of Galveston
last night celebrated the advent of the
New Year in their usually demonstra-
tive manner. All the people of Galves-
ton were present at the time of greet-
ing the new-born year and every moth-
er’s son and daughter as well, were
engaged in the self-appointed task of
seeing how much noise they could
make. And they made some noise. Just
ask any resident of Port Bolivar or
Texas City.
Festivities began rather early. That
is, the people did not waste much time
at home partaking of their evening
meal. There was too much of promise
down where the white lights played on
brave men and fair women, and by ve-
hicle, or afoot, singly or in groups they
sought the vortex or the place where
the vortex was expected to be just as
soon as the maelstrom got into action
and joined the constantly growing
throng which crowded the Market
• street sidewalks and overflowed into
little eddies on intersecting thorough-
fares which constituted little resting
places for those who had become wear-
ied with buffetting the surging tide of
humanity filling every inch of space.
Good nature was manifest every-
where. If there were any policemen
on the streets, their services were not
needed. The crowd was a self-govern-
ing, seething mass of humanity, bent
on giving the new year what might I
be termed a popular reception. Every-
body was smiling, laughing, chatting, 1
shouting; nobody was listening, nobody
cared, nobody complained. It was a
cosmopolitan crowd as well; the mil-
lionaire rubbed shoulders with the
dockworker and the society belle smiled
merrily at the motorman; there were
farmers from the mainland, sailors from
the ships, marines from the boulevard
camp, artillerymen from Fort Crock-
ett and hundreds of fellows from El-
lington field and other camps mingling
with the crowd and adding their own
peculiar contribution to the pot pour-
ri of animated humanity.
As the hour drew nearer the “witch-
ing hour of midnight, when church
yards yawn and graves give up their
dead,” the crowd grew more dense, if
that were possible, and the hilarity in-
creased in volume. Those who had ears
to hear couldn’t help hearing the
B rownsville;
freezing to coast ;
temperature 22 to 28 in sugar and
trucking regions. Thursday fair,
colder on extreme west coast.
For West Texas: Fair tonight,
colder in south portion. Thursday
fair, not quite so cold in north por-
tion. •
For Oklahoma: Fair and con-
tinued cold tonight. Thursday fair,
not quite so cold.
Winds on Texas coast: Fresh
northwest to north, subsiding.
By Associated Press.
Paris, Tuesday, Dec. 31.—Gapt. Andre
Tardieu, head of the general commis-
sion for Franco-American war matters,
speaking to the Associated Press today
relative to certain extraordinary ru-
mors which had been in circulation in
Paris, denied officially that the Ameri-
can army had been required to pay rent
for the trenches it occupied at the
front or for territory occupied mili-
tarily behind the front.
“Numerous reports of French, as well
as American and British origin,” he
said, “have revealed to us that German
propaganda is not dead. One indication, |
among many others, is found in the
persistence of this absurd rumor. It
has been said that when American |
troops took up a new sector on our j
front they had to pay rent for it to the i
French government, and when Ameri- |
can troops captured ground from the
enemy in battle they had to pay rent |
for the reconquered territory. I deny it
officially in the most categorical
fashion.
“The rule followed since the Ameri-
can army arrived in France has been
inspired by an exactly contrary spirit. I
When an American unit relieved French 1
troops, the unit leaving the sector
passed over the material collected there, '
and the same rule was in effect when I
the French relieved the Americans. In I
cantonments the requisition price paid
for private buildings is the same for |
the French and allied armies. As for
hospitals, schools and other public es-
tablishments, they have been placed at
the disposition of the American army
gratuitously."
By Associated Press.
Washington, Jan. 1.—Increase in the
lending power of federal land banks
and the grant of authority for them to
write fire insurance on farm property
were advocated by the farm .board in
its annual report submitted to con-
gress. Modification of the federal
farm loan act so as to make the mini-
mum loan $500 instead of $100 and
maximum loans $25,000 instead of $10,-
000 also was urged.
The report, which was the second
made by the board, was described as
covering "the first year of operation”
of the farm loan system, the first year
of the board being spent in organiza-
tion.
“The year was one -of very evident
progress,” declared the report, which
contained a table showing that farm
loan associations increased from 1,839
to 3,439 during the year; that the capi-
tal of the twelve federal land banks
increased from $10,488,230 to $16,250,-
285; that loans in force increased from
$29,816,304 to $140,004,439; that joint
stock land banks increased from four
to nine, and their loans now amount to
$7,380,734, and that interest rates of the
land banks was 5 or 5% per cent and
that of stock land banks was 6 per
cent.
Interesting information as to the ap-
plications by borrowers of loans from
the banks was given in a detailed state-
ment, dealing with about one-third of
all the loans closed by the banks. This
statement showed that 8 per cent of
the proceeds of the loans were used to
buy land, 10 per cent for buildings and
improvements, 60 per cent to pay off
existing mortgages, 10 per cent' for
payment of other debts, 5 per cent for
purchase of bank stock, 4 per cent for
purchase of livestock and 3 per cent for
implements and equipment.
"The loaning of over $150,000,000 has
been of distinct and direct benefit to
more than 64,000 borrowers,” declared
the report, "and has beep of indirect
benefit to every applicant for a farm
loan through private agencies.”
By Associated Press..
. ■ Norfolk, Va., Jan. 1.—One sailor was
killed, another dangerously wounded,
and several citizens received minor in-
: juries early today in a disturbance
' which started after a midnight frolic
' of enlisted men from the army and
navy on shore leave.
While the streets in the business sec-
tion were filled with crowds celebrat-
ing the new year, men in uniform held
up street cars, hurled missiles, raided
restaurants and looted show windows
and pawn shops from which weapons
were obtained. The police fired on a
number of men caught looting a jew-
elry store window, after which fight-
ing became more or less general.
F. H. Kossen, a seaman, stationed
at the naval base, died at a hospital
from a bullet wound in the head. J.
F. Carroll, a chief. petty officer, was
stabbed in the body and Bryce Custer,
a seaman, in the leg. Only one arrest
was made, Charles Harte, a seaman,
■ being held on a charge of house break-
- ing. Before order was restored the
rioters broke open a hardware store
end took kegs of paliit, with which
they gave the sidewalks a coat of va-
riegated colors.
A navy provost guard aided the po-
lice in dispersing the crowds and
quieting the disturbances. According
to the police, appeals to the naval au-
thorities for further assistance brought
no response.
German Submarines Are Divided
Among the Allies.
By the Associated Press.
London, Jan. 1.—German submarines
which have been surrendered are being
divided among the allies, according to
the - Mail. The newspaper says that
fifteen go to France, ten to Italy, seven
to Japan and four to the United States.
The U-boats turned over to the United
States are said to be now on their way
across the Atlantic.
The newspaper does not specify the
manner in which the rest of the 127
surrendered submarines are to be al-
lotted.
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