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HENRY FORD
TAKES STAND
IN LIBEL SUIT
Against Militarism Not Pre
paredness He Says.
BON GIVES TESTIMONY
Denies Firm Had to Do War
Work or Suspend
VT ri rIFVTi! KC h ll m
tlrnr'y Ford Detroit automobile man-
tfacturer and plaintiff in the $l.tM)-
hiO libel nut against the Chicago
rrihutir. took the witness stand in
-tort here today just before the nom
recess. He answered only a few rmi-
line questions before the noon ad
mrnment was tai.cn.
I.'or.t aocrr-itril Ilia ion T'Kp! Oil
ah Hand the vounaer Ford Kivinii
(tiininnv fnHav rnncrrnincr I fie war
itofitt and contracts of the Ford Mo
lor rompanv.
Mter the recess Attorney Mevcn-
.in for lh Trihnne twvltnir lilt fx
Lmination of the motor magnate into
he important itsue of preparedness.
1 ou were against preparenness
while the Tribune wa fighting fur it
and on thit Ustie von snlit. didn't
hnu'" Attorney Stevenson asked.
I Well answered the man tnat tne
(Tribune called an anarchist. "I am
hot against preparedness but against
kniiitansm.
Then followed the introduction n!
numerous article and interviews
:ven by Ford to newspapers. I he
Mated that a Mr. Detavigne
wrote the stories but that he wai re-
srnsible for them. Most of tnem
t.l ith the Issues of orcoarednrss
Delavigne was Ford's publicity man.
"Von atate. Mr. rorn Attorney
kiinnn aai.t "thai those who favor
preparedness favor war. Do you be
lieve tnat yetr
TU inititr wjraa I rrtirr tinted h tnf
reading of an article coming from
Ford relative to tne danger 01 mili-
tarism and preparednets. It titled
that Mr. Ford had made alt hi money
through peaceful purtuitt and that he
would spend it an to retain price.
. Boa Ttatiitea.
Tl.. -...-n. .rf.anrrd nn monev
to the Ford Motor company for war
work arcording to the testimony o(
Edsel Ford president of the com-
' U Ford mtt nn the stand In the
..it nl liia father. Hrnrv Ford against
JU Chicago Daily Tribune last Fri-
day at adjournment and was cross-
examined by Attorney Fred. Lurking
when the third month of the trial
Opened today.
"There were times when the raw
material was on the ground and ork
nn it started that the government re-
imbursed us" continued the witness.
The Tribune which is charged with
i:l.ii; Mr Fnrd in an editorial by
calling him an anarchist hat presented
evidence intenaea 10 prove ""
tiort charging that Mr. Ford endeav-
ored to prevent mobilization of the
national guard along the Mexican
border in 1916 and pointed out certain
trtterancei alleged to b in opposition
to all war and to government as con-
stituted at present.
Aa to War Wofk.
" Tha cross-examination of F.dsel
intnrlert to show that the
nun thus accused waa in 1917 devot
ing all hii resources to prosecution 01
the war against Germany and doing
0 without a cent of profit to himself
M.rlirrrt elimination flf Kdsrl
Ford Attorney Elliott G. Stevenson
of Tribune counsel sought to show
thaTThe Ford company was compelled
a An war tvnrk M An not hint".
"No" replied Mr. Ford "that is not
true The government controlled ra
material but I think we couM have
continued on a restricted basis."
r.. ..IJ k...a karl In ll off
Vtoousandi of men and wreck your or
rtnisiiton ?
Yi it wnutd have wrerked the
ortanliatioa"
HOUSE REFUSES
ANTI-DRY VOTE
.1.
!fWets" Fail In Move Against
Prohibitory Law
WASHINGTON July K-An
vlCPt to force vote on repeal
mrtime prohibition failed today
time
the house. On point of order raised
by Chairman Vofitead of the in
flJciary committee an amendment to
Mm pending prohibition enforcement
kill proposed by Representative Igoe.
.democrat Missouri wat ruled out of
. Cftlcr
1 BKKKELEY CaL July H Brig
isest- ticnry tv norea. u. s. .
re-
ftst died here yeiterday. lie
was
- WTfirg et age
142nd Colors
Go to Texas
Is Word Here
Chamber of Commerce Com-
plimented by Mayor on
Troops' Reception
Cntors of the 1-lJnd infantry wll
Ko to Tex.is arrordiitg M a nir.iue
rteived this nt'itirr(! t the 'iain-
l.er'of t'omnierce fiom Srtut ir T. 1'.
(cre. 'I he mrsa(e saiys tht "he
tipurt f the cniniiupdiiiu ofliirt on
.' e mini rr of Texas and Ok anoma
men in the units show thai only .me-
tliird of the men were fruri this
st .ite and the other two tlnr Is weie
ffiim Texas.
Hie Lhanibr aho ineived this
iiKiruiiiK a teller of congr itnlaiion
jrmi .Mayor s ?ltin for en tain-
nienls tendered the ret'irning troops
The letter says unit commanders
aiirr'd receptions kiv'i in Oklahoma
City far exrellrd any other reep-
tioni mre the troops landrl.
FORECASTiS RETURNS;
COOLER WEATHER HERE
Vrllrf fm the hnt weather is
scheduled at last! Jawn SlaiiKhtrr
is bai k on the joh at ttie weatno.
bureau and is already predirti-ig that
clouds and cool weather will drive
the thermometer down several de-
grees. It has Leen said tint the hot
wave over the state last week was
entirely due to the absrrce of Slauh-
ter's guiding and suggftifK hand.
SlaiiKhter himself says it has heen
comparatively cool in t'.e places where
lie spent his vacation lie returned
late Saturday night from a ten-day
trip to Washington V C and Vir-
ginia. He qualified his predictions
this morning with the remark that
the decrease might be slight and of
short duration.
DISCONTINUANCE OF
M'NABB LINE ASKED
A petition has been presented to the
eorporation commission by the Okla-
homa Railway company requesting
that the company he allowed to dis-
continue its McNabb park car line
from Twenty-first street norm ac-
cording to C. B. Treat chief engineer
of the company. J he steel wni dp
torn up and used in the connection of
the Culbertson Heights and Capitol
lines as soon as the Northeast Im-
provement league obtains a street
through Twenty-fir It probably will
be about 30 days before actual con
struction will start on the connection
says Treat
RIVER LEASE BIDS
RECEIVED TOMORROW
niit fnr leases on hundreds of acres
nf ualnabt nil and an land border
ing on and including portions of the
Hart river hrvttnm In the Texas oil
field will be received tomorrow by
the commissioners of tha land omce.
The leasina nf about one-third of
the land advertised has heen held up
by a suit filed by the United States
government asserting that ' tne lann
In mieatinn is the nrooertv nf Indian
allottees and ii not subject to lease by
the state.
GIRLS' SCHOOL MAY
LOCATE AT TECUMSEH
No definite decision has been
reached on the Question of the relo
cation of the State Industrial school
for Girls it was announced at the
office of the state board of public
affairs today The board it was an-
nounced is still ready to receive pro
posals from any place that desires to
secure the institution.
However it was said around the
capitol that the proposition offered by
the city of Tecumseh Minds a good
chance of being accepted.
BROOM CORN LABOR
DELEGATE CHOSEN
Charles E. Day of Chickisha was
designated today by Claude Connally
labor commissioner to represent the
state labor department at the meeting
to be held at Lindsay fnr the purpose
of discussing plant for securing the
necessary workers for harvesting the
broom corn crop and agreeing upon
the wages that areto be paid.
BULLETINS
nVei.lW Tut 14Tha A lira-
meiae-Ztttvng says that aa remit of
aofficiai aegotutiou Betweaa nei-
lail aad the alllee Hollaad has
agratl to the extraettloa of tha at
kaiatr for tilaf.
WASRllfOTOIf July M.-Tha
senatt this afteraooa vassal a raae-
lutioa by Senator McCormlck Illlaota
rosriiiae for a aaeeial er i com
mittee e( tea to (avsitlgati nd re-
fart nn latar than Daeamka 1 na
badftt tytUn for the Oalttd lUtea.
French Mingle Tears With Applause As Heroes
Of War Swing Through Triumph Arch Closed
Since 1870 in Great Allied Victory Parade
Ny Intarnntlonal Nwa Prvlc
I'AKIS July U Twenty thousand
allied soldiers swung ros. Fans
eastward today hef.ire the eyes of
more than a million spectators who
saw the great victory parade.
Leading them on horseback was
Marshal Foch generalissimo and di
reiting getuiu of the allied lurtessrs
on he field of battle. Heside him
rode Marshal luffre. hero of the first
battle of the Marne. and riding at the
head of the various contingents came
(ienerals I'crsliiiiK. Ilaig Petain
Dia. Castelnau and other great chiefs
The troops manhrd in alphabetical
order which brought the Aaiencans
led bv (lencral Pershing immediately
behind Fin h and Jnffre.
For two hours tliev swung through
a double living wall four miles long
with the rheers rising in one unending
roar.
The greatest moment of the day
came when Foch and Joffre drove
their horses under the magnificent
Arc de Triomphe followed by the
soldiers of liberty. Sune France's
defeat in 1811. the arch of the finest
ari hitertural monument to Napoleon's
irtones had been barred to wheeled
traffic by heavy swinging chains. In
previous celebrations since the armis
tice kings and princes had all passed
around the arch but today the stain
of 1870 was wiped out ; the chains
were flung down and the victorious
allied troops marched triumphantly
beneath the towering structure while
a sniid mass of people filling the
stands around the Place de I'Etoile
broke into storms of cheering.
It is impossible to estimate the num
ber nf people along the line of march
But Paris papers today said that sev
eral million saw or tried to see the
spectacle. Representatives of nearly
every civilired people cheered them
selves hoarsa at tha passing war he
roes. ' A riot of overpowering emo
tion attended the scene tn which' full-
throated French applaoM was the pre-
dominant note.
But in the unprecederrtly great mass
of people lining the route and packing
the overlooking windows and balconies
T"
HOUSE FAILS TO
SET ASIDE VETO
Agricultural Bill With Day-
) light Rider Is Defeated
WASHINGTON. July ll The
house this afternoon failed to over
ride President Wilsons veto of the
daylight saving law. The vote was
24 in favor of overriding to 135 in
favor nf sustaining the veto. As a
two-thirds vote was necessary it
would have required 254 votes to pass
the measure over the president's dis
approval.
MAN SLAYS MOTHER
WITH IRON WEDGE
OZAPK. Ark.. July 14-Vsing an
iron wedge. Robert SHfert. 2f beat
his mother So to death at Alit late
last night. The woman s skull was
crushed. The cause of the crime is
unknown. Seifert is in jail here.
MISS LUCY SAYCS FOLKS
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wattie tonlgttt ana Tu4ari net mutts
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Arc da Triomphe.
Greatest Generals in Europe Head 20000 Picked Veter-
ans in March Through Paris Streets Before More
Than Million Cheering Spectators.
there were many moving manifesta-
tions of the moat hitter grief. From
these windowi bereaved parents and
children wept at the"-thought that a
kindlier fat would have allowed their
kin to ahare in this unparalleled
spectacle and not at Clemenceau elo
Gay Life Is
Led by Bill
Writer Says
Former Kaiser Not Bowe-d
Down by Woes But
Seems Very Happy.
n Intarnatlnnal News Service.)
AMERONGEN. Holland July M.-
William Hohentnllern former kaiser
is not the broken man he has been
pictured nor it he apparently worry-
ing over the prospect of facintr trial
for war crimes according to his ap-
pearance. The correspondent had an extreme-
ly clear view of him and the former
empress and a secretary while walk-
ing in the grounds of the castle of
Count Bentinck. The one-time em-
peror was laughing gaily talking ani-
matedly and twinging his cane just
as he did in pre-war days as I
crossed the bridge over the castle
moat. William was dressed in brown
tweeds and hit figure was strikingly
erect though rather stout. There was
no sign that he had been bowed
down by the weight of his woet.
WILSON RECEPiTCl
FUL':SJ0STFCiO
Arrangements for the meeting 'to be
held here when Pretident Wilson
visits Oklahoma on hit league of na-
tions tour of the country will not be
perfected until the date of the (res-
ident's visit it fixed definitely it was
announced today by H. R. Christo-
pher tecretary to Governor Robert-
ton. It it expected that the exact di'e
will be known within a wek or to
and thru plana will be ttarted toward
making the president'" t'np here the
greatest political and public evert in
the history of the state.
SALVATION ARMV DRIVE
IS NEAR$56000 MARK
The tffVOOO mark In the Silvatlon
army home service campaign will
probably be reached by tonight after
reporti from churches that held
drivet yesterday have barn received
according to C G. Fencil campaign
manager. rVncil aa'd this morning
that ire cirrpaign would he contin-iel
until the $60000 quota ia raited. No
reports from churches and only
frw subscriptions had been received
a! headquarteri tint morning
quently said in the chamber of depu
ties "hv laid thesn down in a ahroud
of glory on the fields of battle."
But the pathoe of the scene wat
dimmed by the most wonderful aemon-
stration of rejoicing ever teen in the
French capital. Today it ia at though
RAIROADS GIVEN
1918 TAX BASIS
Few Raises Made by State
Board of Equalization
Nearly every railroad in the state
was assessed finally this morning by
the state board of equalisation upon
the tame basis at a year ago. In
only a few instances were increases
made and these were regarded as im-
material. The chief reason why the carriers
were not increased is because the
owners of railroad properties did not
reap any of the benefits of war time
prices the government agreeing when
they took over the lines to pay the
stockholders on the basis of their
earningt before the war.
In the hearing before the board
some time ago representatives of the
railroads declared that last year's
sihedule of valuations would be sat-
isfactory. POLICE SALARIES
PAID TOMORROW
Beaty Promises to. Put $7-
000 Judgment in Budget
Back salaries for the police depart
ment for the month of June will be
paid tomorrow Mayor Walton an-
nounced this morning. Walton said
that Cotintv Assessor James Beaty
had given him the assurance that the
$7000 talary judgment rendered
against the ritv recently will he in-
cluded in the judgment fund in his
year t budget.
In line wtth Reatv t assurance war
rants will he issued the policemen to-
morrow morning and the city treas
urer will be instructed to recognue
them.
Commissioner Mike Donnelly who
hat been the renter of much criticism
by nfembert of the police department.
exprested satisfaction that an agree
ment had been reached. Donnelly has
refuted to he a party to paying the
police until it wat definitely estab-
lished that fundt were available
Prior to Beaty't itatement thit morn
ing Donnelly told the other commit
tionera that be did not care to spend
a protracted vtsito McAiester.
BREST July 14.-The steamship
Rotterdam with Secretary of Stie
I-ansing on hoard left here for New
i ork thit afterrsBf
the peoples of the earth were united in
welcoming a millrnium. What in fact
is happening in Paris t-xla is that
the greatest men of F.urope are joiti-
ing the humblest in a feverish a;n.the
' mii .f peare.
I "Death Vigil" Takes Place.
I r.rfore the rejoicings legaii today.
France? paid tr bote to her more than
I a million and a half of dead last night
I in the most mournful ceremony in the
I history of the republic. A "death vigil"
i took place beneath the Arc de 'Iri-
1 omp'ir where a huge tomb of war was
I built dii a raised platform sprinkled
I with the soil of many ba'tlclieliN. A
mammoth plaster figure of victory
' stood at each of the four comers All
1 nnht a pis k rt of honor stood watch
j with arms reversed while a multitude
cf people thousands weeping filed
i leiieath the arch before the sepulchral
I monument in silent homage to the
1 fallen heroes. The candelabra were
lighted at nightfall and cast flicker-
ering streams of light upon the people
i streaming solemnly past the tomb into
; the surrounding gloom of the vast
1 ?.rch.
Farly this morning the sepulchre
was removed to a corner of the Place
de l'F.toile to allow the troops to I
march by.
The route of march from the Porte
Maillot to the Place tie la Kepublnjue
was a scene of Babylonian splendor.
At Porte Maillot through which the
allied armies made1 their official entry
into the city stood a great triumphal
arch.
Avenues Decorated.
Along the Avenue de la Grande
Armee and then along the Champs
Elysees the Place la Concorde were
festoons of gilded buntings which
swung from Venetian masts placed at
thirty foot .intervals. Adorning the
masts were luminous aloles. ftower
baskets clusters nf allied flags and
the coat of arms of French cities.
Displayed on pyramidira.1 columns at
freouent intervals were trophies ot
war. the helmets rifles haversacks
and grenades mingling with the gar
lands of flowers the whole warlike
tCcntlnuad on Pao S Column t.)
Donnelly to
TeU Police
About Wages
Not Responsible for Pay Fail-
ure Says City Finance
Commissioner.
Aroused by reporti that he hat
been represented to members of the
police department as stinding in the
way of the payment of bark salari'j
Commissioner Mike Donnelly this
morning asked Mayor Walton to call
a conference of the commissioners
with a committee from the police.
In making his request Donnelly said
it was his desire to let the police
know just why they were not paid
for the month of June.
Donnelly said he had received sev-
eral reports to the effect that he was
alone responsible for the police not
basing been paid. He intimated that
Municipal Counsellor Koss Lillard
has led the police to believe that he
has thwarted attempts to pay them.
Mayor Walton granted the re'.uett
for an airing of the controversy and
said tna' a comm.ttee of policenen
would be appointed.
ARMY RECRUIT RECORD
HERE IS REMARKABLE
Col. Reuben Smith in charge of
the recruiting for the I'nited States
army in Oklahoma said this morning
that this rity it ttitl leading any in
the United States in proportion to
sire in the number of men enlisted.
Since March t and including July J
there have heen 984 men accepted for
service tn the army here. During
thit tame time St. Louis has enlisted
only one more than this mtmber and
Cleveland only two more. The colo
nel expect!' to top these cities In fu
ture reports.
FEIGE CASt; PUT OVER
AGAIN UNTIL JULY 21
Preliminary hearing for Karl Feige
charged with manslaughter was con
tinued until July 21 this morning by
Justice W. P. Hawkins. He is alleged
to have contributed toward the death
of Norine Evant by adv;ing a pro-
longed fast at a meant of curinu an
illnatt. Two continuances have been
granted
17. So Greets
France Upon
Bastile Day
Wilson Expresses America's
Cordial Feelinqs Towani
Brave Ally.
WASHINGTON
P.pfore beirinninir
July
the
14.
day's
con fen
nces. Prei(!ent Wilson
ih inessajre to President1
sent this messajre
Poincare of France on the oc-
casion of the celebration of
Pantile day :
"May I not on this day which
commemorates tbe breaking of the
chain that once bound France to
an intolerable servitude convey
to the people of Fiance the cor-
dial ftatetoal greetings of the
people of tbe United States and
their sense of privilege and joy
in having been associated with
Fiance in breaking the bonds of
the world?
(Signed)
"WOODROW WILSON."
U. S. MUST NOT
SKULK IN WORLD
CRISIS-SWANSON
League Covenant Vigorously
Defended by Virginian.
(Hy Th Aaaoclated Preta )
WASHINGTON. July U.-Prais-ing
the league of nations covenant as
"one of the world's greatest docu-
ments" Seaator Swanson of Virginia
a democratic member of the foreign
relations committee told the aenate
today that if the United Statet re-
jected the league it "would mean that
she would skulk in the greatest world
crisis that ever occurred."
The speaker defended the league
against the objections that it would
sacrifice sovereignty and American
traditiont and asserted that on the
contrary it wou'd result in immense
material gain in protecting American
integrity and preventing war. He de-
clared it would not create a super-
government involve objectionable ob-
ligations nor invalidate the Monroe
doctrine.
"The pathway of our dutv it plain"
said Senator Swanson. "Let ns not
he frightened by our own prodigious
shadow as it projects itself into world
affairs. Let us not lie deterred from
our manifest duty and destiny by a
craven fear of becoming great in giv-
ing service and direction to a world
in a direct hour of its need and dis-
tress." Pointing out that the war had
shaken the social order to its founda-
tion the Virginia senator said it was
the paramount obligation of respon-
(Contlnutd on fsgt t Column I )
PRINTER VICTIM OF
HEAT PROSTRATION
F. I.. Haer. printer living at 41 J
Fast Third street suffered a beat
prostration at 12 40 o'clock today
while at the corner of First street and
Hrni'lwav. An ambulance took the
stricken man to the Emergency ios-
pital. where no information at to hij
condition was available.
MAN HURT ARMISTICE-
DAY TO JOIN ARMY
Otdert to waive regulation! in the
case of Jothan L. Strickel who ap-
plied here for re-enlistment in the
United States army have heen re-
ceived by the United States recruiting
office. Strickel was wounded four
hours before the armistice became ef
fective. His re-enlistmei-t was held
up on account of the injury but he
will now be taken back by Uncle Sa-i
He wants to team . mechanical trade.
Seaman Held for Shooting Captain.
MOIIII.K. Ala. July 14-A special
session o the lelerl grand )ury has
been called to investigate the case of
Ventura Cuellar Mexican seaman
who is charged with shooting Capt.
I). A. Reicher of the American schoon-
er Jean L Somerville of Mobile while
on the high seas ( netlar is now
being held under $20.0(10 bond. Keich.
er is in a hospital at Fort de France
Martinique.
British Consul General Dies.
LONDON July 14 -Sir Percy
Sanderson British consul-general at
New York from 1804 to I'M died at
his home in Reading today.
Sir Terry Sanderson was horn in
London July 7 1842 and entered the
Indian army in 1859 retiring on half-
pay in 1870. He wat made Knight
Commander of St. Mihiel and St
George in 1899. Sir Percy
married.
SENATE BODY
IKES FIRST
TREATY HE
Alleped Secret Japan-German
Pact Is Requested
WILSON NOT INVITED YET
'Bliss Letter' of Protest is
Also Asked In Resolution.
(fty Ttie Aaaocliited I'reaa )
WASHINGTON July 14. The
senate foreign relatiois committee
beginning i.nsidrration today of the
peace treaty reported three minor
resolutions hearing on the Versailles
negotiations hut took no action on
the question of asking President Wi1 .
son to tiike part in committee discus-
sion of the treaty.
Resolution! Reported.
The resolutions reported would call
upon tiie president and the state de
partment tor information regarding '
an alleged secrrt treaty between Ja-
pan and Germany regarding a protest
said to have been made by General
1 1 lis. Secretory Lansing and Henry
White against the Shantung settle
ment : wttv t'osti Hira "was nnt tier
mittrd" to sign the peace treaty.
Members of the foreign relation!
committee said practically all of the
two hours' meeting was take:i up witil
consideration of thes- resolution! and
that there was do discussion at to in-
viting the president to meet with the
committee or of the proposal to sep-
arately consider the peace termt and
the league of nations covenant. Do
tailed discussions of the treaty prob-
acy will begin when the committc-i
meets again 'omorrow.
Immediately after the committee ad-
journed debate on actual ratification
of the treaty began in the senate. Sen
ator Swanson of Virginia a demo
cratic member nf the committee open-
ing with a speech praising the leagu.1
covenant as tbe only possible plan for
preserving world tranquility.
All of the resolutions reported bjt
the committee were amended in minor
particulars. That regarding the al-
leged Japanese-German treaty intro-
duced by Chairman Lodge and that
relating to Costa Rica introduced ty
Senator La Follette republican Wis-
consin were reported without record
votes.
Party Vote Recorded.
The Shantung resolution introdureJ
by Senator Rorah republican of Ida-
ho was reported by a vote of 9 to 3
all the democratic members present
opposing it and the republicans in-
cluding Senator McCumber Nortli
Dakota voting for it.
Senator Johnson republican of Cali-
fornia offered a resolution in the
committee requesting that copiet of all
documenti connected with negotiation
of the treaty be submit ted to the com
mittre. While the committee wat in tesa
sion President Wilson discussed vast
riout phases of the treaty particularly
the Shantung settlement with sena-
tors who called at the White Houses
On this point it wat said the presi-
dent pointed out that necessarily the
American peace commissionert could
not impose their complete will oil the
peace conference and were compelled
to accept some things in the treaty
which they personally disapproved.
The president also was said to have
explained that consideration had to
be given the treaty between the allies
a id Japan made before the Unite I
States entered the war by which the
material German interest! in Shantung
were pledged to Japan.
No Political Righta.
The president was said to have told
his visitors that the treaty did not
give Japan any political righta in
Shantung and in Kiao Chau but only
economic rights which would termi
nate in sixty or teventy yeari.
Japan's delegates at Versailles the
president was said to have told hit
callers were instructed not to sign
C tr-Jty unless the Japan-alliel
ticily provisions rrgarding Shantung'
were ;v e ci to.
The presnient r.lm was represented
as hav nit rvrr.i'cd the view that it
was expr'Ii :i; to yield nn Shantiiriif
in order to b.ivr Ja;sn as a member of
the league of i'!tions.
President Wilson discussed Ihe
peare treaty at some length todaj
with Senators King Utah and Me-
Kellar Tennessee democrat! whfl
were among half a doien White
House callers. It was undefttood
that particular attention we fijefl w
the Shantung situation and after the
conference Senator King said 4je wi
convinced this quettion efetsrsiallr
would clear itself. I
"Dry" Kaiereetaeat DUcuseed.
Commissioner Roper rihe trrttrtii!
revenue bureau was fn conference
with the president during the morning
and was said to hare disftjiifd ouet-
tlont involving tntforremtnt of war
time and conttfHttinnat pftthiMtlrH.
Mr. Roper wat rmeWrtoosl . ;
told the aretident mat he) a 1
.Jtbink hia bureau thoatf k
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Gaylord, E. K. Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 31, No. 82, Ed. 1 Monday, July 14, 1919, newspaper, July 14, 1919; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc171180/m1/1/: accessed April 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.