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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-07-24
MILLION MEN
MAY Be SENT
IN FIRST ARMY
SUCH is FORESHADOWED IN SUD
DEN CALL FOR FIVE BILLION
DOLLARS EXTRA.
SENATE is SURPRISED
Secretary McAdOO Makes the Request
and Will Go Before Senate Finance
Committee Asking for Big Increase
in Present War Tax Bill.

Washington, July 24.-An American
army of one million men for service
abroad at once, instead of the five hun
dred thousand contemplated for the first
draft is fOreshadOwed by the govern.
ments request for an additional S.
OOOyOOO,OOO made to the senate finance
committee today.
The first million men are to be
up of the first drafty army OF 5OU, u
The national guard and the regulars.
IL is improbable that the first draft
will be increased, but the government is
arranging its finances for other drafts
without the necessity of going to con.
gress again for money.
Secretary McAdoo, committee mem.
bers stated, told the senate finance com.
mittee that it was estimated that an ad-
ditional credit of $4,000, 900 900 to be
loaned to the allies also would be re-.
quested
Washington, July 24.--Secrctary Nc
Adoo today prep2red new war esti-
mates for congress very much in excess
of those already presented. and which
will nbcessitate raising revenue not
contemplated when the senate finance
committee revised the war tax bill The
bill probably will be further revised.
The government, basing IN estimate
on the needs of the army and navy
wants the war tax bill TO authorize
an additional s5,OOO,OOO,OOO. Secretary
McAdoo will appear before the finance
committee late today to explain the
treasury's needs. based on the reforms
of the army and navy.
Whether the $4,000, ,O00,OO0 would be
raised by a bond issue had not been
determined.
While no official intimation of the
source of the new revenue was given
before Secretary McAdoo went before
the finance committee, there were indi-
cations that II would be drawn princi-
pally from excess profits and estates
taxes, probably some increases in in.
come taxes and minor increases in mis-.
cellaneous taxes Official figures are
said to show that excess profits in the
United States are now at the rate of
$4,000. 100000 year.
Secretary McAdoo asked Chairman
Simmons OF the finance committee to
withhold reporting the bill to the sen.
ate, as had been planned for today. uu-
I'll he could confer with the senator's
The new situation threw all the plans
awry for pushing the war tax bill
Senate managers today had no idea
when the big measures for raising the
revenues for conducting the war would
move forward.
Before Secretary McAdoo appeared
before the finance committee II was UNI
derstood that the five billion dollars rep
resented the estimates of the war and
navy departments and that he would
propose an additional billion dollars to
he raised by taxation and seek authority
for an additional credit of $4,000, 900, 900.
Whether the latter sum was to be in
bonds or certificates of Indebtedness was
not disclosed
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-07-24
KERENSKY ADMITS SITUATION is
SERIOUS AND DEMANDS
DRASTIC ACTION.
EXECUTIONS PROBABLE
In Meantime German Army Has Taken
Advantage of Mutiny of Russian Regi-
ments and Is Sweeping Forward Cap
turing Big Guns and Prisoners.

Petrograd, July PA blood AMI
iron" policy will be put into effect, if
needed, to save Russia, by the govern
ment Of Premier Kerensky, to whom
unlimited power has been granted. In
an interview today, the premier said:
Relying upon the confidence of the
masses and the army the government
will save Russia and Russian unity by
blood and iron, if argument and reason,
honor and conscience are not suffc
lent.
The situation at the front is very
serious, and demands heroic measures
But l am convinced the organization
of the state is sufficiently vigorous To
be cured without a partial amputation." !"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-07-24

Copenhagen, July PA dispatch
from a war correspondent of the LolSal
Anzeiger of Berlin says that the Austro-
German advance in Galicia is sweeping
forward necessarily, Notwithstanding
desperate counter-attacks by Siberian
troops.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-07-02
Quebec House in England
Preserved as Landmark
Correspondence OF The Associated Press.)

(correspondenee OF The Associated Press3
Westerham, England, june TO-
Quebec House, the home of General
Wolfe, hero of Quebec, which. be-
fore the war, was oae of the show
places about London for American
and Canadian tourists, has passed
from control of the Canadian govern
ment to the National Trust. seni-
official body (which aims to preserve
historic landmarks.
The home was purchased in 1918
by the late J. B. Learmont of Mon-
treal, who wanted to maintain. it as
a public monument. He oied before
his plans could be completed, but his
heirs conveyed it to the Canadian gov
ernment. Owing to the difficulty of
administering a trust so distant, that
government preferred that the prop
erty should be vested in an English
body.
The house contains a collection of
specimens of the native work of Ca
madam Indians and, of pictures and
notwithstanding the progress OF the
Dominion. Wolfe was not born in the
house, but at a house close by which
still exists. He spent most of his
! childhood days at Quebec House.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-07-02
Nebraska
DEFENSE COUNCIL
FOR PLATTE COUNTY
Enthusiastic Audience at Co.
lumbus Hears Patriotic
Addresses by Noted
Speakers.

Columbus, Neb., July 1.-(Speciai
Telegram)--The Platte County Coun-
Gil of Defense was organized here to-
day with the following officers: Chair
man, c. H. Carlow, Columbus; vice
chairman, Bruce Webb, Creston; sec
retary, Mark Buke, Columbus; treas
urer. w. A. McAllister, Columbus.
The meeting was one of the most
largely attended ever held in the
tabernacle which was hlld with
singing, applauding patriotic throng.
Edgar Howard. lieutenant COVER
nor, presided. Henry c. Richmond
secretary of the Nebraska State Coun-
Gil OF Defense, made statement with
reference to the county organizations
and was followed by an eloquent ad-
dress by Vice Chairman George
Copeland, of the state council. Then
followed Chancellor Samuel Avery of
the state university, in a stirring ad-
dress.
C J. Ernest, president Of the
Omaha Board of Education, spoke at
length from the standpoint of one
who was born in Germany and who
loved no other flag than the stars
and stripes to which he Pledged his
undying devotion and eliquenly urged
his compatriots and all Amrican citi-
Ems of whatvr birth or ancestry to
stand lyally for Amrica and against
any foreign foe.
John w. Cutwright, editor of the
Lincoln Star and Evangelist Rayburn
closed the meeting with addresses
along patriotic lines.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-07-02

UP to $1,000 and surtaxes graduated
from to So per cent upon larger
incomes.
A comparison of the estimated reve-
nue. to be gained from other sources
under the revised bill and the house
bill respectively follows:
Liquors $lSS,000,000 against $751;
100000. tobacco $56,600000 against
sos, 100000: freight transportation
81, 100000, unchanged; passenger
transportation $S7,500.000 against
S7S,000,000;, automobiles, $40000,000
against S68,000000 payable under the
revised bill by pleasure car owners
and not manufacturers); amusement
admissions $25,000,000 against $60.-
100000, and first class mail $50000,-
900 against $70000,000 (by retaining
the cent increase for first class mail
and striking out the increase upon
postcards).
Further Reductions.
House levies of 5 per cent upon
gross sales of many manufacturers
were stricken out entirely and taxes
on patent medicines, perfumery, cos
metics, Pullman accommodations and
soft drinks greatly reduced
Believing compromise on prohi-
bition legislation will not stop con-
sumption and review yield from dis
titled spirits, beer or wines, the COM
| mittee made little change in the house
liquor taxes.
The committee struck out entirely
the house 10 per, cent general tariff
tax upon virtually all imports, esti
mated to raise $2O0,000,000. It sub
stituted consumption taxes totalins
$50, 100000 and bearing more directly
upon consumers, of half cent ;
pound on sugar, 2 cents on coffee.
cents on tea and 3 cents on coco;
and substitutes.
Stamp Taxes Again.
All Spanish war stamp taxes woul,
be virtually reimposed under the bill
the committee adding a new tax of
cent each on bank checks over SIS
From stamp taxes $33.000,o00 revenu
: was proposed under the house bill
and $30,000,000 under the committe
revision.
Other changes in the revised bill
include a prohibitive tax to stop man
ufacfure of distilled beverages Will
taxes on other intoxicants- are vir
tually doubled; elimination of hous
; taxes of $6000,000 on inheritance
and $l08,000000 retroactive take
upon 1916 incomes; repeal Of the spc
cial l2Is per cent tax on war mum
tons; repeal of the drawback" re
export allowance given sugar rehr
ers; extension to parcel post pack
ages of tax of | cent for each 2
cents paid for express transportation
elimination of house taxes on cor
sumers' electric light, power and ga
bills, all insurance, jewelry, club due
tires and tubes, musical instrument
, motion picture films and chewin
, gum.
d In greatly increasing the tax lev
: on excess profits the committee ais
S provided for such taxation on co
Omaha daily bee., 1917-07-02
Three Thousand Attend
StOckmen's Reunion

Alliance, Neb., July l.-(Special. y
Fully 5000 people witnessed the pro.
gram at the fair grounds here Friday,
the final day of the stockmen's re-
union. The string of horses and mules
from the Irwin Bros. ranch near
Cheyenne, together with many of the
best in western Nebraska, gathered
here for the three days, furnished en-,
tertainment to lovers of the sport the
equal of which is seldom seen.
Dwight Zediker, tn elocai horse
man, successfully defended the honor
of worlds champion relay rider
against strong competition.
Irwins' bucking mule, Happy
Jack" that has thrown riders by the
score for two years, met his Waterloo
when Eddie Becker Of Alliance
stack" until the judges declared him
the champion.
Pablo Martinez, the champion roper
from Cheyenne, gave exhibitions
hair raising in character, while Harry
Walters, from Irwins' ranch, thrilled
, the spectators with his feats Of daring.
The local lodge of the Travellers
Protective association gave dance in
the opera-house Friday night in honor
OF the visiting stockmen.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-07-02

bers of his company elected him cap
tain in 1908. In 1915 he was made a
major. During that year and in 1916
he was commandant of the Omaha
High school regiment. He was forced
to give up this work when the Fourth
regiment was ordered to the Mexi-
can border When Colonel Baehr
moved up notch following the resig-
nation OF Colonel Eberly, Lieutenant
Colonel was elected his present COM
mand. He is now attending the school
of musketry at Fort Sill, Okl.
Major R. G. Douglas, senior major
who will in all probability command
the first battalion, composed of Oma-
ha, troops is A. years old and has
been a rnmeber of the guard eighteen
years.
He enlisted in 1899, as a private in
company A at York where he gave
up his position as "scffeolmaster." He
was sent to the Philippines.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-07-02
MAY HOLD ASSETS
OF GRAHAM ESTATE
Attorney Wants 100000
Held in Trust to Meet De-
mands Of Depositors in
Failed Bank.

Chicago, ILL.,, July Preliminary
investigation today shows that de-
posits in the private bank of Graham
& Sons, closed yesterday, amounted
to $3,845,000 and that the bank had
$4,000 in cash when it decided to
suspend business.
Subpoeanes were issued for Mrs.
Minnie Graham, widow of Andrew ].
Graham, founder OF the bank, and her
three sons, Ralph R., Frank ]. and
John B. Graham, to appear before a
referee in bankruptcy Monday morn
ing. The bank is in the hands Of a
receiver appointed by the United
States district court. y
Application by an attorney for de.
positors seeking to have the assets
OF the Graham estate. said to be more
than $2,000,000, held in trust in favor
of creditors. whose deposits were
listed before the elder Graham.
death In 1916, was refused by United
States Judge Carpenter.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-07-02
Abandoned German Notes
Tell of Many Disasters
iBy Associated Press. J

British Army Headquarters in
France, July l.-Some interesting
items of German news have been
CLEANED within the last few days from
letters found in raided dugouts. One
of them, written from Bielefeld, Prus-
sia, June 6, tells of an explosion in
munitions factory at Detmold and
continues: >
st was terribly sad On Sunday
ninety victims already had been
buried. One woman, who has lost
four sons in the field, has now lost
her three daughters in the explosion.
1t is strange that the Westphalian
newspapers give no report of the. ac-
cident." =
Another letter written at Erfurt,
Prussian Saxony, May 28, Says:
"The church bells have pealed a
farewell This week all of them will
be taken away to be sheltered down
and turned into shells. No eye re-
manned dry when the pastor men,
toned that instead of ringing out It'd
irigs of an early peace they must now
cause death and destruction"
Omaha daily bee., 1917-07-02
COMMITTEE HEARS
DRY" COMPROMISE
Much Progress Is Made Con-
eerning Prohibition, But
Little on Other Food
Bill Features.
(By Associated Press.)

Washington, July l.--Much pro-
gress toward compromise on prohi-
bition and little on other features in
the food control bill was made Sat-
urday by the senate committee.
Sentiment crystalized IN favor of
section following the lines
of President Wilson's suggestion to
prohibition leaders to drop the fight
against the manufacture of beer and
wines. -
After conferences with other lead
ers, Senator Chamberlain drafted a
tentative section which would stop
manufacture of distilled beverages
only without giving the president any
authority over malt and yineous
beverages. ..,
This draft will be considered to-
morrow at a special meeting OF the
senate committee. 1t is said by the
leaders to have the general support
of senator's, although several plan an
earnest effort to give the president
power to discontinue brewing and
wine making. -
The administration leaders also
plan to eliminate the provision giving
the president authority to COM
mandeer existing stocks of distilled
spirits. Til
General debate with speeches by
Senators Lewis and Reed, occupied
the senate all of today. Senator
Chamberlain tonight said it was not
probable the bill would be>passed be-
fore the Fourth of July recess.
When the senate resumed debate on
the food control bill. Senator Lewis,
democratic whip urged that congress
should speedily dispose of the bill to
avert the calamity that had befallen
other countries in delaying over for
/ rl1alities and time-worn precedents.
He said it would not serve for con-
gress to excuse inactivity and defeat
methods of conserving the food sup
ply because of the cry "unconstitu-
tional."
"The people are not so much con-
cerned about our constitution as they
are about our institutions" said he.
The American people are in no mood
to allow an obsolete paper constitu-
ton to defeat the preservation OF the
human constitution. The text OF our
action must be-long live American,
death to her destroyers at home and
abroad"
"We cannot charge the president
with the responsibility and at the
same time withhold from him,sth au.
thority necessary to execute the re.
sponsibility."
Senator Lewis contended that as
congress was giving the president full
power to control food it should also
let him control the liquor question
involved in the food legislation.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-07-02
COMPLETE REVISION
OF WAR TAX BILL
Senate Committee Reduces by
S147,s30,oo0 Budget Passed
by House Five Weeks
Ago.

Washington, July l.-Revision Of
the Sl,S00,000000 war tax bill passed
BY. the house five weeks ago was COM
pleted by the senate finance commit
tee Saturday. The measure virtually
was rewritten and reduced to $l,6S2,-
10000 with no authorization of addi-
tional bonds. The final draft will be
given formal committee approval
Monday and reported to the senate
by Chairman Simmons early next
week.
Incomes and excess profits will bear
about thirds of the new tax bur-
dens under the revised bill-about
half a billion dollars each--with a
large share of the remainder secured
from liquors and tobacco. Many
house taxes were entirely eliminated
by the committee and others added
Radical increase OF taxes on war
excess profits of corporations, part
nerships and individuals, decided upon
today, enabled the committee to dis
pense with the suggestion made o'
additional bond issues OF from SsOo,'
100000 to $l,0000000oO.
Stone Amendment withdrawn
Senator Stone withdrew an amend
ment for a 500,000,000 issue. While
the bill falls short by about 5000,
100000 Of meeting the treasury esti
mates of the war expenses next year
the committee decided that by issu
ing $l3s,000,000 of authorized but un
sold Panama canal bonds the ex
penses can be met until congress re
convenes in December. .
As finally drafted the much debatet
publishers tax section proposes
per cent tax upon publishers proht
over $4,000, yielding $7,sOO,OOO reve
nue., and an increase OF quarter cen
a pound in second class postage rates
yielding 100000. .
Excess profits due to the war un
der the revised bill would bear $3.50
100000 in taxes graduated from IL t,
40 per cent, according to the proper
ton OF excess.
49, Income Tax Decreased.
From income taxes $s32700O0
would be raised, $66,000,000 less thai
the house provided--the decrease be
ing made entirely upon incomes Q
$4,000 annually and abovc--with tn
committee approving the house pla
| of lowering income tax exemptions 7
$1,000 for single persons and $500
| for married persons, additional nor
NAL taxes of Q per cent upon income
Omaha daily bee., 1917-07-02
Boston Socialist Parade
Ends in General Riot

Boston, Mass, July 1.-Riotous
scenes attended a socialist parade to-
day, which was announced as a peace
demonstration. The ranks of the
marchers were broken up by self-or-
ganized squads of uniformed soldiers
and sailors, red flags and banners
bearing socialistic notices were
trampled on and literature and fur
nishings in the socialist headquarters
in Park Square were thrown into the
street and burned.
Police reserves stopped the rioting
after it had been in progress an hour
and half. Many arrests were made.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-07-02

Continued From Page One,
re-enlisted. In 1909 he was elected
captain and in 1905 major of the first
battalion. He was made Lieutenant
Colonel in 1909. Following the resig-
nation of Colonel George A. Eberly,
who was given commission in the
offices reserve corps, upon his return
from the Mexican border, Colonel
Baehr, was elected to his present
command.
Some Real Fighting Men.
Colonel Baehr is postoffice clerk
in civilian life. To officers who know,
he is considered the best trained
Omaha daily bee., 1917-07-02

porations' undistributed surplus. That
earned in 1917 will be allowed gen
eral tax exemption of 20 per cent
and that earned prior thereto would
be taxed, when distributed, according
to the revenue rates existing in the
year when earned.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-07-02
Cholera Morbus.

This is avery painful and danger
ous disease. In almost every neigh
borhood someone has died from it'be-
fore medicine could be obtained or a
physician summoned. The righ way
is to have a bottle of Chamberlain s
Collie and Diarrhoea Refnedy in the
house so as to be prepared for it.
Mrs. Charles Enyeart, Huntington.
Ind. writes: During the summer
of 1911 two of my children were
taken sick with cholera morbus.
used Chamberlain's Collie and D,ar-
rhoea Remedy and it gave them i'm
mediate relief"
Omaha daily bee., 1917-07-02
HYMENEAL-.
Paschang- -Markle.

West Point, Neb., July 1.-(Spe-
cial.)-The marriage of Joseph P.
Paschang of this county to Miss Julia
Elizabeth Markle of Omaha was SOL
emnized at the latter place. Mr..
Paschang was born in this county and
is now assistant cashier of the First
National bank of York, where the
couple will make their home.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-07-02
Be Careful in Using
Soap on Your Hair

Mostsoaps and prepared shampoos
contain too much alkali, which is very
injurious, as it, dries the scalp and
makes the hair brittle. ~ -
The best thing to use is inst plain
mulsihed cocoanut oil, for it is pure
and entirely greaseless. It's very
cheap, and beats the most expensive
soaps or anything else all to pieces.
You can get this at any drug store,
and few ounces will last the whole
family for months.
Simply moisten the hair with water
and rub it in, about a teaspoonful is
all that~is required. 1t makes an
abundance of rich, creamy lather,
I-cleanses thoroughly, and rinses out
easily. The hair dries quickly and
evenly, and is soft, fresh looking,
bright, fluffy, wavy, and easy to
handle. Besides, it loosens and takes
out every particle of dust. dirt and
dandruff.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-07-02
c2aJorP PGDo1ylas

vate, acting at times as corporal. In
1905 he was allowed to wear bis SER
geant's stripes, and in 1907, one year
after he married, he was mad second
lieutenant of Company L, then the
Thursston Rifles, of the First regi-
ment.
Lieutenant Colonel Elsasser made
it point never to miss drill. For
his interest in company drill men,
Omaha daily bee., 1917-07-02
Bancroft Man Fined sioo.

West Point, Neb., July 1.-(Spe-
cial.)--The second case under the pro-
hibitory law to be tried in Cunning
county was heard at Bancroft on
Wednesday F, w. Sifford was found
in an intoxicated condition and with
whisky in his ~ssession and was
brought before Justice Norby and
fined $l00 and costs, which he paid.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-07-02
Efficiency Standards
Established for
Motor Cars

Gasoiinet franklin Ma
tional Economy Test, May |,
19i4-o4 franklin cars in all
parts of'the country averaged
1878 miles to the gallon Of
gasoline.
And again May I, 1915
1877 Franklin Cars averaged
32.l miles to the gallon.
And again in the Yale Uni
versity Fuel Economy Test,
when Professor Lockwood
and Arthur B. Browne, NJ. E.,
established the fact that the
Franklin Car uses less gasoline
per mile than any other car
with six or more cylinders.
Oil! In the New York to
Chicago Oil Test the Franklin
Omaha daily bee., 1917-07-02

AMERICANS are at heart
~ a practical people.
4 "A There is something in
them that responds to Thrift;
something that makes them
ashamed Of extravaganza and
waste.
They may get off the track
occasionally, but they always
come back to the main road of
efficiency and common sense.
\ $500, 600, 600 Wasted in
Gasoline and Tires
Eoery Year n
The average American is
busy. Outside his business he
lets others do his thinking.
He thinks with his crowd.
He did this on motor cars.
He bought dead weight and
rigidity, ponderous machinery
and bigwheel-base.
He lugged around radiators
and plumbing, a water-cooling
system of l77 parts. ...
He paid the price in upkcep
and depreciation, tire destruc-
ton, gasoline waste. ...
1t cost him in a year about
$500, 900, 900 and did not give
him the comfort of the hexi-
bic, easy riding Franklin, with
its qoorld5 record ofeeonomy tn
cast efeperation.
There is no middle ground
in this thrift question.
A car has it-or it has not.
Like easy riding comfort
if thrift is there it proves itself.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-07-02
American Motor Cars Gerry
More People than the
Railroads

The more this couatry gets
down to stern realities the
bigger place there is for the
Franklin Car.
There is nothing new in
the Thrift of the Franklin
only more people are rccog-
nizing it.
7 The Franklin owner has
nothing to change, nothing
to explain or excuse.
He is using his car more
instead of less, because it is
primarily car of utility,
owned and operated on a
Thrift basis.
1t must be gratifying to him
that he saw these things betorr
the call to the National Thrift.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-07-02

ever, has been more rapid than that
of any other officer of the organiza-
ton.
One day in 1908 Lieutenant Colonel
Elsasser was watching the Thurston
rifles going through the manual of
arms drill. t<e
want to enlist?" the drill sergeant
shouted.
"Sure," remarked the genial Heinie.
He served for three years as a pri-
Omaha daily bee., 1917-07-02

Perry Moves Again.. 5.
with hardly a chance to become regu-
lar Pitcher Scott Perry has quit the Boston
Braves and Joined q Chicago semt-pro
team. ...s s.. - r .t.