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THE PADEN SUN
FARE THEE fit,
OLD J. BARLEYCORN
IN JUST SIX MONTHS WE'RE
, DONE WITH YOU FOR-
EVER
WATER WAGON IS NATIONWIDE
Nebraska, Home of Bryan, the Man
Who Discovered Grape Juice Was
Drinkable Cinches the /
Bet.
ftTTY.-GEN. GREGORY QUITS
Another Cabinet Officer Finds He
Can't Live On His Salary.
Washington.—Thomas Watt Greg-
ory, attorney general of the United
States since 1914, lias resigned be-
cause of "pecuniary responsibilities"
and will return to the practice of law
March 4.
Mr. Gregory's successor has not yet
WALKER D. HINES
NEVER AGAIN.
My wife and I lived all alone.
In a little log hut we called our own;
She loved gin, and I loved rum,
jl tell you what, we'd lots of fun.
1 (Chorus)
Ha, ha, ha, you and me,
Little brown jug, how I love thee;
Ha, ha, ha, you and me.
Little brown Jug, how I love thee;
Washington.—Ratification of the
•federal constitutional amendment
jmade the United States the first
jgreat power to take legislative ac-
tion to permanently stop the liquor
traffic.
Nebraskas vote' gave the necessary
•affirmative three-fourths majority of
the states to make effective the
amendment submitted by congress in
December, 1917. It was followed by
similar action in the legislatures of
Missouri and Wyoming, making thirty-
eight states in all which have ap-
proved a dry America.
Affirmative action by some of the
ten state legislatures yet to act are
predicted by prohibition advocates.
To Be Dry In July.
Under the terms of the amend-
ment, the manufacture, sale and im-
portation of intoxicating liquors must
cease one year after ratification, but
prohibition will be a fact In every
state much earlier because of the war
measure forbidding the manufacture
WILSON NAMES NEW HEAD
TO THE RAILROAD AD-
MINISTRATION
FAVORS FIVE YEAR CONTROL
New Director-General Had Been Mc-
Adoo's Assistant and Will
Carry Out Policies of His
Predecessor.
THE B00ZE SCORE
For the Federal Prohibition
Amendment:
Kentucky.
Idaho
Virginia.
Maine
Mississippi.
California
South Carolina.
Washington
North Dakota,
Indiana
Maryland.
Arkansas
Montana.
Illinois
Arizona.
North Carolina
Delaware.
Kansas
Texas.
Alabama
South Dakota.
Nebraska
Massachusetts.
Utah
Georgia.
Iowa
Louisiana.
New Hampshire
Florida.
Missouri
Michigan.
Colorado
Ohio.
Oregon
Oklahoma.
Wyoming
West Virginia
Tennessee
Total—38
Necessary to adopt—36.
Against the
Amendment:
None.
Attorney-General Gregory.
been appointed and there has been no
official intimation as to who he will
be. In speculation the names of Frank
L. Polk, counsellor of the state de-
partment and acting secretary while
Mr. Lansing is in Europe, and Sen-
ator ames Hamilton Lewis of Illinois
were mentioned.
COURT UPHOLDS DRY LAW
I State Statutes Nullified By Reed Bone
Dry Act.
Washington.—Statutes of dry states
permitting persons to import or to
bring in intoxicants for their own use
were, in effect, nullified by the Reed
bone dry amendment enacted by con-
gress, the supreme court held in an
ppinion reversing the federal court
for the Southern district of West
Virginia.
''The case came up on an appeal of
the government from the lower court
decision dismissing proceedings
brought against Dan Hill for carrying
p. quart of whisky into West Virginia
for his personal use. as permitted by
the state law. The trial court held
that such transportation did not come
within the meaning of the Reed
amendment, which it held was intend
ed to apply to actual shipments of
liquor. The supreme court remanded
the case for retrial.
MUST RETURN STOLEN GOODS
GERMAN FACTORIES TO BE
STRIPPED OF MACHINERY
That Was Stolen From France and
Belgium By the Hun
Army
Washington.—Walker D. Hines, as-
sistant director general of railroads,
has been appointed director general
by President Wilson, succeeding Wil-
liam G. McAdoo, who now retires to
private life.
Mr. Hines, who was recommended
by Mr. McAdoo, is an advocate of
the latter's plan for five-years con-
tinuation of the government control
to provide a test period, and has sup-
ported most of the policies of the re-
tiring director general with whom he
has been associated throughout the
last year of government management.
He is accredited with having origi- |
nated many policies of the railroad
administration.
If congress does not enact new rail- j VANCE
road legislation at an early date. Mr. |
Hines favors returning the roads at
once to private management and this
is expected to develop into a strong-
ly contested issue within the next
month or two.
Until he became a member of the
railroad administration staff a year
ago, the new director general was
chairman of the Santa Fe and was
one of the youngest railroad execu-
tives in the country. He is now 48
years of age. He became affiliated
with railroads as a lawyer.
Mr. Hines' salary will be deter-
mined by the president. Mr. McAdoo
divided his time between his duties
of secretary of the treasury and di-
rector general, and received no com-
pensation for the latter office.
Mr. Hines inaugurated his admin-
istration with .• stattment saying
that with the war over the govern-
ment's duty was to render adequate
transportation service at reasonable
cost, and calling upon all railroad
men to co-operate in accomplishing
the task. He said when called before
the senate committee considering
railroad legislation he would endeav-
or to point out the disadvantages of
government operation for a period
of only twenty-one months after
peace and would urge the five year
extension plan, or a quick return of
the roads to their owners.
London.—The new armistice terms
' to be presented to Germany by Mar*
| shal Foch, are stated here to include
the following:
First—Retribution upon the Ger-
mans for the murder and ill-treatment
of allied prisoners.
Second—The machinery and goods
stolen by Germany from France and
Belgium to be at once given up. It
is pointed out that France alone has
500,000 men who will be out of work
until this machinery is returned.
Third—German gold, amounting to
more than $100,000,000 to be moved
from Berlin to a safe place, probably
Frankfort, and protected from Bol-
shevism in Germany en route. Cer-
tain other property to be surrendered.
Fourth—Germany to give over her
shipping, of which she is believed to
have 4,000,000 tons, to carry food sup-
plies to countries in Europe in need
of them.
Fifth—Any U-boats on the stocks
to be handed to the allies for their
disposal, or to be destroyed and no
| more submarines should be built.
MAXWALTON COMMANDER
Maxwalton Commander, undefeated grand champion of the world, whose
home is the Lookabaugh farm at Watonga. Many produce of this noted sire
will be on exhibition at the Southwest American Live Stock Show. Okla-
homa City, March 2-7.
M'CORMICK QUITS
and sale of alcolholic beverages after
June 30. until the demobilization of
tb.S military forces is completed. Un-
der the war time measure, exporta-
tion of liquor is permitted, but the
great stocks now held in bonded ware-
houses will have to be disposed of
before the gedpral amendment be-
comes effective.
New problems of government are
raised by prospective stoppage of the
manufacture and sale of intoxicating
liquor, as hundreds of millions of dol-
lars derived from internal revenue
will have to be obtained from other
sources. Laws for enforcement of
the amendment will also have to be
passed by congress. Hundreds of mil* j
lions of dollars are invested in distil- |
leries and breweries.
Discussion as to whether the new
amendment becomes a part of the con- i
stitution now that thirty-six states
have ratified it, or whether it becomes
a part of the basic law only when
each state has certified its action to
the secretary of state, led to a search
for precedent which showed that the
only two amendments ratified in the
last half century, providing for income
taxes and direct election of senators,
were considered effective immediate-
ly the thirty-sixth state had taken af-
firmative action.
Effective In 1920.
Senator Shepard, author of the pro-
hibition amendment, held that nation-
al prohibition , becomes a permanent
fact January 16, 1920.
Half Of Nation Dry Now.
More than half the territory of the
United States already Is dry through
state legislation or local option elec
5TH LIBERTY L0AN APRIL 6
Five or Six Billions Will Probably
Be Sought.
LUXURY TAXES AGREED TO
Washington.—Opening of the Fifth
liberty loan campaign April 6, the sec-
ond anniversary of the declaration of
war against Germany, is under con-
sideration by treasury officials but no
decision has been reached. The Third
liberty loan drive started on April 6,
1918, the first anniversary. It is plan-
ned to have the campaign run for
three weens and to ask for between
five and six billion dollars. Whether
the interest rate will be more than
4 i-4 percent borne by the last issues
depends partly on the movement of
the marlcet price of Liberty bonds dur-
j Ing the next two months. The bonds
I will be of short maturity—in the neigh-
borhood of five years.
House and Senate Making Proflress
In Tariff Conference.
National Democratic Chairman
Become Ambassador.
May
Washington.-—Vance • C. McCormick
has resigned as chairman of the dem-
ocratic national committee and it is
understood that he is under consid-
eration for appointment as Ameri-
can ambassador to France to succeed
William Graves Sharp. Mr. Sharp's
resignation, it is said, is now in the
"SAHARA EMPEROR" KILLED
Erratic Frenchman Shot By His
Wife, Whg Claims Self Defense.
Westbury, N. Y.—Mme. Marie Au-
gustine Lebaudy admitted to Dis-
trict Attorney Charles R. Weeks of
Nassau county, that she shot and
killed her husband, Jacques Le-
baudy, known as "Emperor of the
Sahara," as he entered her home.
Phoenix Lodge here. She claimed
; he had threatened her for fifteen
years.
Lebaudy, who was the son of a
♦multimillionaire Frenchman, attain-
s ed international fame a few years
ago when with three companions he
net out to occupy his "empire" which
consisted of the Sahara Desert. For
nome years he kept up the pretense
of holding court in his mythical
realm. After removng to America he
was In an asylum for a while.
Washington—Tax rates on luxur-
ies, semi-luxuries, amusement admis-
sions and club dues were agreed upon
by the senate and house conferees
on the war revenue bill.
Rates in the house bill on amuse-
ment admissions in excess of thirty
cents were adopted by the conferees,
the senate managers accepting the
higher house rate, but reached a
compromise for retention of the ten-
ate rate on admissions of thirty cents
or less. Under the agreement the
amusement admission tax will be one
cent on each ten cents paid up to
thirty cents and two cents on each
dime paid in excess of thirty cents.
The house rate of two cents on
each 10 cents paid for admissions to
roof gardens, cabarets and similar
establishments, was adopted, as was
the house rate of twenty-five per cent
instead of the senate rate of ten per
cent on theatre boxes.
It is estimated that about $75,000,-
000 in revenue will be obtained an-
nually from amusement admission
The house rate of twenty per cent
on club dues, double the tax under the
existing law, and expected to raise
about $9,000,000. was also adopted.
In disposing of the excise or semi-
luxury taxes, the conferees agreed to
the senate assessment of ten per cent
of the amount paid in excess of fixed
standard prices by purchasers of
semi-luxuries, such as carpets, picture
frames, traveling bags, pocketbooks,
umbrellas, fans, lmt3, shoes, stock-
ings and other articles.
The luxury rate provides five per
cent taxes on manufacturers sales of
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Roll of Honor
Oklahoma Casualties to January 16.
Killed in action, died of wounds and
Hccident
Died of disease 606
'Vounded ; 2,217
Vlisaing and prisoners • 51
Total
4.305
Vance McCormick
hands of the president, but no an-
nouncement of the fact has yet been
made.
Officials at the white house declin-
ed to discuss the report that Mr.
Sharp would return home to be suc-
ceeded by Mr. McCormick, but it
seemed to have credence in other of-
ficial circles. Mr. Sharp was under-
stood to have desired for some time
to return to this country for a rest
after his arduous duties as the
American representative at the
French capital during the war.
Killed In Action
Corp. Arthur G. Meyer, Alva-
Waiter E. Kesler, Oklahoma City.
John J. Fall, Tulsa
flny E. Wlsenhunt, Ada.
Walter E. Heffron, Lookeba.
Edward L. Hayward, Oklahoma City.
Wm. F. Shelton, Granite.
Died of Wounds.
Lieut. Roy W. Kenny, Blackwell.
Sergt. Ilarry W. Bock, Pawnee.
E manual Griscemer, Watonga
John L Tulley, China
Hardin A McCalren, Muskogee
3eo F Robinson, Broken Bow
Clvde Emery Buchanau, Valliant.
William I). Garvin, Jr., Austin.
Dewey U. Jones, Muskogee.
Barney Smith, McAlester.
John E. Martin, Mounds.
James A. Turbow, Bennington.
Jos. V. Merrill, Delaware.
Wounded In Action
Sergt. Jos. W. fechul, Coalton.
Corpl. Harry W. Bonlfleld, Medford.
Corpl. George R. Washburn, Granite.
Corpl. Clyde H. Rising, Sapulpa.
Corpl. Homer A Kopp, Roosevelt.
Corpl. John D. Saunders, Prattsburg.
Wagoner Noe Jackson Farley, Seminole-
Robert Holiday, Gerty
Leo McGriff, Bailey.
Christian I. McGtnnis, Mutual.
Sam Smith, Deaware.
Watson John, Golden.
Solomon F. Kraus, Pawnee.
Edward O. News, Kingfisher.
Wm. J Partain, Bokoshe.
Walter C. Bates, Mansville;
Ed McBrayer, Wiliki.
Cicero It. Waites, Coyle.
Leslie J. Rollins. Gotebo.
Corpl. Geo. W. Harrison, Gage.
Wm P. Black. Hunter.
James A. I>ogan, Leedey.
Elijah J. Allen. Broken Bow.
Died L. Hamilton, Colbert.
Oscar F. Crocker, Pauls Valey.
Lloyd G. Smith, Valliant.
Roy Day. Enid.
H. L. Morris, Wilson.
Ernest S. Dandrnth, Idabe.
Nathaniel Haynes. Aidmore.
Virdel Massey, Boswell.
Robert Shannon, Durant.
Clarence E. Young. Bartlesvlie
Robert Sockey Colhoun.
Awarded Distinguished Service Medal
Brig.-Gen. Hugh Johnson. Muskogee.
Awarded Distinguished Service Cross.
Sergt. W N. Koutz, Crescent ...... .
John R. Litchtield, Blackwell (killed In
action.)
tions. Until recently the movement —■ -—-
of limited quantities of liquor for per President-Elect To Bran .
nonal use was permitted, but the su- Rio Janeiro-Dr Rodriguez Alves
preme court ruled several days ago president-elect of Brazil o .
that the Reed bone dry amendment ! 5>ad been critically ill for some .n t
made such traffic illegal. . past.
Western and southern states took
the lead in prohibition . In the west
only California and Wyoming still
license the sale of intoxicants and In
the south only Louisiana. The re-
maining wet states rrom a belt
through the Mississippi and Ohio riv-
er valleys to New England, the states
including Missouri, Illinois, Wiscon-
sin, Kentucky. Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey,
New York, Rhode Island, Connecti-
cut, Massachusetts. Vermont and New
Hampehir*.
Government To Sell Wheat,
New York.—The food administra-
tion grain corporation announced
that it soon will formulate a policy
P< f disposing of a portion of its re-
erve stock of wheat to the mills in
urder that prices may be kept down.
Drastic Dry Law Offered.
' Montgomery, Ala.—Introduction1 In
both houses of the Alabama legis-
lature of a drastic bone dry prohibi-
tion bill was a feature of the sessions
last week.
COMBAT UNITS ARE COMING
Forces In This Country To Be
ieased At Once.
Washington. — Demobilization of
combat units in the United tSates ha
been ordered, .General March, chie
of staff, told the house military com
mittee. This means, he added, tha
every unit of the army in the Un\te('
tSates with the exception of two res
ular regiments held for police duty at
each camp, ha3 been ordered demobi
lized.
The house military committee prac-
tically reached an agreement in con
ference with Secretary Baker and
General March, chief of staff, to post
pone the war department re-organlza
tion bi 1 until, the next session of con
gress and with it a large part of tht
Creek Tax Case Decided.
Millions of dollars worth of property
in Oklahoma, including the land on
which a portion of the city of Mus-
kogee is built, was rendered taxable
by a decision of the supreme court
of the United States, holding that the
tax exemption on Creek Indian allot-
ments ceases wren the land is alien-
ated.
The decision affirms the judgment
of the Oklahoma state supreme court
in a case originating in Muskogee
county, wherein owners of land pur-
chased from original Creek allottee*
resisted payment on taxes on the prop-
erty ' on the ground that the tax ex-
emption runs with the land, rather
than with the allottee.
A portion of the city of Okmulgee
and a number of other east side cities
are built upon former Creek, allot-
ments, which now become taxable un-
der the decision.
No estimate could be obtained on
the amount of taxes involved, due to
the fact that the records are in the
counties where the land is located, but
it is believed the amount will far ex-
ceed $1,000,000,000.
A municipal bond Issue for $1,100-
000 is the latest Oklahoma City dream.'
McAlester will hold a live stock
show in April.
Oklahoma's production or coal for
1918 was 4,276,000 tons, or an increase
of 388,000 tons over 1917.
About t>ne hundred delegates from
every part of the state attended the
meeting of the Oklahoma State
Grange, held in El Reno January 14
to 16.
John Garret, of Haileyville, a well-
to-do mining engineer is in trouble
because James B. Dowell, a revenue
officer found a forty gallon moon-
shine still in his home.
The following Oklahomans have
been released from German prison
camps: Harry Miller, Coalgate; De-
los A. Robbins, Lawton; Joseph H.
Bishop, Dill; Granville E. Brookshire,
Cushing; Carl C. Leslie, Alva; Char-
les Hendrickson, Earlsboro; Roland
F. Hess, Bartlesville; Warren Hill-
brand t, Lamont; Hannibal B. Wood-
ward; Ben Wilson and Henry Zemp,.
Morrison.
STATEHO'JSE BREVITIES
motor vehicles, tire* and accessories, | prospective debate over the future
pianos, talking machines, candy and • « !««
similar articles, ten per cent on ath-
letic goods, liveries, furs, yachts and
motor boats, and three per cent on
chewing gum and toilet soaps.
Mob Leader Currencrers.
Chattanooga.—C. A. Wyrick, agent
of the Southern railway, wanted in
Sheflle'd. Ala., in connection with the
recent lynching of two negroes, walk-
ed into the county jail here and sur-
rendered, later furnishing bond in the
sum of $15,000. Wyrick is accused of
leading the mob which stormed the
Jail at Sheffield on November 11, but
friends state he was in Chattanooga
on that date and filled out his draft
questionnaire before Judge Sam D.
McReynolds. Wyrick was a former
deputy sheriff here.
military policy of the country.
General March said the army was
now organized under presidential«or-
der and the plan included in the staff
bill was practically that organization
A total strength of 509,000 men is
provided for, he said, to be organized
into twenty divisions grouped in five J
corp-i. The total annual cost to be
fixed at $1,185,000,000, estimated on
a return to a base pay of $16 a month
for privates and exclusive of $86,000.
000 carried in the fortifications bill.
All the existing war-time organiza
tlons, such as the tank corps, trans
portation and motor transport corps,
independent air service and the like,
are to be continued, with the ex
ception of the chemical warfare serv*
ice.
The village of Bismarck in Mc-
Curtain county has changed its name
to Wright.
Fourteen murders were committed
in Oklahoma City in 1918 and four-
teen suicides. The same number was
reported in 1917.
Rev. Charles Bell, Baptist mlnls'ler
| at Holdenville for four years, has re-
signed to take one of the BapMst
churches of Memphis.
The Chickasha postoffice is now
rated as flrst-class, having advanced
wken the report of Postmaster Bf,re-
foot showed that the receipts for the
past year were above $40,000.
J. Harvey Randell, 49 years old, for
eight years president of Bacone Col-
lege, near Muskogee, and ten yfcars
prior to that a Baptist missionary in
India, died at Muskogee following a
long illness.
Thomas Pu''en, teller of the Bart-
lesville Natioral bank, has been ar-
rested, charged with embezzling $7,-
900 of the bank's funds while receiv-
ing remittances through the mall.
This is the second defalcation discov-
ered in this bank within thirty days.
J. E. Spangler, teller, recently arrested
on the same charge, is now cut on
bond. Pullen waived a hearing and
was released on $5,000 bond.
Jusices of the peace for twenty-
five counties in the state met and or-
ganized a state association. M. E.
Bunnell of Chickasha, was elected
president and W. P. Hawkins of Okla-
homa City, secretary of the associa-
tion. A legislative committee com-
posed of John W. Scott, Pauls Valley,
Frank Bourland, Ardmore, M. E.
Bunnell, Chickasha. A. T. Early, A.
W. McWUiiams and T. F. Donnell of
Oklahoma City were appointed. Legis-
lation affecting the coats of their work
will bo asked.
The regular qua-terly examination
was held by the State Board of Phar-
macy last week. There were seven-
teen applicants of which six made-
grades entitling them to certificates
as registered pharmacists. The six
applicants for the assistant examina-
tion. made the grades.
The successful applicants for the
regular examination were:
Charles F. Klrkland, Lawton; R. A.
Bateb. Fairview; E. L. Hay, Carter; J. W
Hell, Lindsay; C. E. Rogers, deary; C. I.
Hartman, Canadian; T. F. Hubbell, Okla-
homa City; assistants: J. E. Campbell,
- Weatherford; W. CI. Green, Wister; 1 . M-
Kelley, Marshall; Arthur Grundy. Voving-
ton; Albert L. Mitchell, Blnita; William A.
Denny, Tryon.
Hugh C. Jesse, Lawton, was grant-
ed a certificate of registration by-
diploma from Oklahoma university.
J. D. Lankford designed as state:
commissioner, to take effect imme-
diately. Lankfovd has been bank
commissioner for nearly eight years.
Women may not serve on juries in
Oklahoma it was held by Attorney
General Freeling in an opinion sent to
D. M. Cavane88, county attorney of
Grady county. The attention of Free-
ling had been called to newspaper
stories to the effect that women wore
to be called for service in Chickasha
and this prompted the sending of the
opinion. Freeling ptilnted out that
sections 18 and 19 of article 2 of the
Oklahoma constitution provide that
both grand and petit juries should be'
composed of "twelve men."
Charges that the Western Oklahoma
Gas and Fuel Company advised the-
people of Duncan against laying in a
supply of coal for use In gas short-
ages and that the company then fail-
ed to furnish an adequate supply ol
gas during recent cold spells is mado-
in a complaint filed by the city oi
Duncan with the corporation commis-
sion against the company. The com-
plainants ask that the commission,
make an investigation with the view
of adjusting he charges of he com-
pany in proporlon o he service fui
nlihtd.
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