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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-16
ACID IN STOMACH
SOURS THE FOOD
says Excess of Hydrochloric Acid
il Cause of Indigestion.

A well known authority states that
stomach trouble and indigestion ~
nearly always due to a~cidity-acid
stomach - and not, as most folks be-
lieve, from a lack of digestive Iuice'
He states that an excess of hydrochlo-
rio acid in the stomach retards digestion
and starts food fermentation, then orr
meals sour like garbage in a can, form
ing acrid fluids and gases, which in
fIate the stomach like a toy balloon.
We then get that heavy, lumpy feeling
in the chest, we eructate sour iood.
belch gas, or have heartburn, ilatu-
lence, waterbrash, or nausea.
He tells us to lay aside all digestive
aids and instead, get from any phar-
macy four ounces Of lad Salts and take
a tablespoonful in a glass of water be-
fore breakfast while it is effervescing
and furthermore, to continue this Tor
one week. While relief follows the
first dose, it is %immportant to neutra'
lie the acidity, remove the gas-making
mass. start the liver, stimulate the kid,
news and thus promote a Tree How o.
pure digestive Juices. =,
lad Salts is Inexpensive and IS mad'
from the acid OF grapes and lemon
Juice, combined with lithia and sodium
| phosphate. This harmless salts IS use
bv thousands Of people for Stomao,,
trouble with excellent results adv.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-16
Red Cross Refund
Puzzles Members
of Junior Chapter

Children and students in the schools
In Oklahoma City and county who be
came members OF the Red Cross during
the Red Cross Christmas membership
drive, will not individually receive the
50 cent refund, allowed by the Okla
homa county chapter, says w. a. ~
brand, chairman of the country chapter
The children have not understood
that this so cent refund does not come
back to them Individually, but that It
goes into the Oklahoma county school
chapters treasury OF the junior Red
Cross, and will be used TO buy ma
terials with which to commence the
work in the schools. Many children
have been calling Mrs. Holtszche in
the last few days asking for their money
back.
Students in the high school have
pledged themselves as members OF the
Junior Red Cross regardless OF tive one
dollar memberships given during the
Christmas membership drive.
The Junior Red Cross is an entirely
separate organization from the adul
Red Cross and is under the supervision
OF the Junior Red Cross at the head
quarters in ST. Louis. Each county ma
its chapter, and each school is a unit
and is under the supervision OF TIN
county school chanter.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-16
Biologists Guests
of Oil Association

Delegates to the Southwestern aSso-
citation of Petroleum Biologists were
the guests of the Oklahoma Oil and
Mining association at luncheon at the
Lee Huckins hotel today at noon. Can
tain s. T. Bisbee, president of the Oil
and Mining association acted as toast
master and called on several well
known biologists to make short talks
Among the speakers at the luncheon
were Graves Leeper, ]. Elmer Thomas,
president of the Southwestern Associa-
tIon Of Petroleum Biologists, PROBES
O lanes F. Kemp, w. A. J. NJ. Won
dergracht, president of The Roxana Pc
troleum company and DR.. r. d. Sails
bury. of the University Of Chicago.
All of the talks were in a light vein
Professor Kemp saying that he hell
stock in a company which proposed Il
drill through the dome Of the state cap
ital and that he was sure gas in grea
quantities would be found.
DR.. Salisbury urged all biologists t
keen a permanent record Of all Of thei
work and urged that thew be on tn
ground when any oil well was bein
drilled.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-16

~AnaeS RsAenhoase -

kneed, but even this does not prevent
rs from staring longer after the blue
colored. red tuited turban Of the sailors
who parade our streets, smoking end
less cigarettes and talking in their
quick jargon.
The RAkiIh Turban.
The French and American millinefs
have not repeattl this sailor turban
nj its rakish red pnd blue. They have
built IL OF dignilied fabrics, Black
satin, colored %tafteta, aigfettes lett
over from another epoch, and combln.
ed 10 make up a hat that has some
thing OF stateliness in It and is suit
able for the woman over 80 even more
than for her daughter.
Young girls have these sailor turb.
ans with the tufie top, but they usual,
| choose them in subdued eolors ant
wear them straight across the brow II
that line that prevails IN fashions.
So insistently is this line carried
out that the woman who tits her ha
back 10 show a BIT OF her forehead
looks a little disordefly One has
strong desire to- push her hat over TO
ward her eyes and redeem her from tn
charge Of being careless. The sailo
may put his turban on in a rakisI
fashion, but the American woman mus
not
There was a time, not many month
y when the milliners and a lev
smart women tried out the Rambrar
turban worn at the rAkish angle adpp,e
by the painter and put on his canvas
but somehow. it didn't suit the Amer
can race and IL was given up alter
swift and unsuccessful trial. It wa
left TO the bohemians, who care ne
how they look
The turban in the sketch shows
dignifed edition OF the foreign sailor
takish hcadgear. II has the peak
the crown, but not the tuft, the tollin
brim, and the scarf above this. AS
rettes stick out from It here and Their
as though they were frail guns in
/, satin army tank. The hal is worn 2
, far down over the forehead as the ey'
will permit and touches the tips OF u
I ears.
/ 1t is repeated in straw and is mac
I up in many combinations OF colof'
{ straw and fabric crowns. Black al
= yellow. blue and gold and scarlet al
, blue are some Of the accepted ones.
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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-16
He Doesn't Like
Beard; His Wife
Does; He Sues

ST. LOUIS, Mo-Mts. Leslie L
Johnson Of Boston is fond Of boards
aud having her " way, according to
Theodore Johnson, a travelling sales
man. lie entered suit for divorce.
The Johnsons were married May 9,
1891, and have four grown children.
Johnson AYERS that on their wedding
day Mrs. Johnson declared she had no
love for him and married him only be-
cause she was unable to live in peace
with her mother. She insisted, the pc
tition r%ecites, on dominating all family
affairs.
Mrs. Johnson insisted upon her hus'
band wearing a beard, the petition goe'
on to say, although he protested HI
didn't like the appendage, A youns
man attending college and boardins
with them, Johnson says, also was in
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-16
Wage Scale Boosted
BY ADJUSTING Board

WASHINGTON, Feb, l6,-The ship
ping boards wage adjustment board
TODAY agreed on an increase in wages,
definite working conditions and over
time pay for all shipyard workers IN
the so-called Delaware yards, compri'-
ing about % percent of ship workers on
the Atlantic coast 1t does not include
the striking carpenters but is expected
to affect their strike.
Many of the striking carpenters, how
ever. despite the advice OF their union
officials, have signified their intention
of accepting the award. The strikers
in the New York district have not done
so, but it is hoped they will. 49,.
The new wage scale is not so high
as the Pacific coast rate, NOT so higr
as the New York strikers demand, but
it will be the model for settlements II
other districts on the south Atlantic
and gulf coasts.
The boards decision was perfected
after conferences today bctweea Actinl
Secretary Roosevelt Of the na'"' Chair
man Hurley Of IT.. ship Joard
General Manager Pier Of the Emer
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-16
LAFOLLETTE TEST
OF STRENGTH DUE
IN HOME STATE
Legislature Meets to Appoint
Hastings Successor

MADISON, Wis, Feb. l.-Mcmbers
Of the Wisconsin legislature arc gath
cring in the capital in readiness for the
special session which has been called
to meet Tuesday to take mp the prob
lem caused by the death OF United
States Senator Paul o. Husiing, The
problem involves considerably more
thar the mere choice OF a successor to
Senator Husting. OF vital interest 70
the state and nation AZ this time will
be the test Of strength between the 10y
atty force, OF Wisconsin and the so
called La Follelte.pr German organ.
ration.
Ever since the death Of Senator
Husting the loyalty element has beer
| clamoring for a special election "a
choose his successor, believing that
such an election would bring 10 a show.
down the relative strength OF the Ii
Toilette and anti-La Toilette factions
! Governor Philip, IN the other hand
| has entertained a desire 10 ill the sen
atorial vacancy by personal appoint
ment and will ask the special sessioI
Of the legislature to give him this power
Senator Husting dide on October Z
last, nearly four months ago. The leg
stature In Wisconsin meets Biennial
and usually Is convened the first wee
in January. The delay Of the goyerno
in eonyenin gthe special session ha
brought forth a flood Of hostile com
ment in the state, the charge bein
made tina, he is robbing Wisconsin {
an opportunity to have complete repre-
sentation in the senate at this critic'
time
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-16
No Soldiers Can
Leave Camps for
Holiday Parades

WASHINGTON. Feb. l6.-Railway
congestion on eastern lines and the
necessity Of moving the last contingent
Of tho national army will prevent any
extensive movement Of soldiers TO cities
for paradeS of Washington's birthday,
Director General MeAdoo explained to-
day.
Ia a letter 10 Major General John
Biddle, acting chief Of staff, the director
general declared It would be impossible
to transport the jlSth infantry and the
jl2th artillery Pennsylvania National
army troops from Camp Meade "a
Philadelphia for a Washington birth.
: day parade.
Thrift and general prosperity 70
hand In hand. Buy Thrift Stamps
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-16
CLEAR COMPLEXION
Rudy Cheeks--Sparkling Eyes
Most Women Can Have
Says Dr.. Edwards, q Well.Known
Ohio Physician

Dr. p. M. Edwards for II years treated
scores Of women for liver and bowel
ailments. During these years he gave to
his patients q prescription made OF . few
well.known vegetable ingredients. mixed
with olive oil, naming them DIR. Edwards
Olive Tablets. You will know than BY
their olive color.
These tablets are wonder.workers on the
liver and bowels which cause q normal
action, carrying of the waste and poison
Gus matter In ones system.
II you have a pale face, sallow look. duii
eyes, pimples, coated tongue, headaches, .
listless no.good feeling. all out OF sorts,
inactive bowels, you take one OF Or.
Edwards Olive Tablets nightly for q tims
and note the pleasing results.
Thousands OF women % well % men
take DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets-the sue.
cessful substitute for calomd--now and
then Just to keep In the pink Of condition
lOc and Csc per box Az druggists.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-16
ENna' "rHT DEEMS
FOR DRAFT SCHOOL

Enrolments for classes in Oklahoma
City war school for draft men will be
open on Tuesday night at 7:30 o'clock
IN the Irving school. Only men in
Glass I will be accepted in the school.
F. D. Graham will be in charge of
the enrolment.
The courses offered include auto re
pair and auto operation, also funda-
mental courses in carpentry. and a gen
ersI course for radio buzzer operating
for signal service.
Equipment will be established in .hc
Irving school. and 'he, classes will com.
menee with the completion Of the en-
rojnent Of the men
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-16

gency Fleet corporation, and Chairman
Macy Of the adjustment board.
Ii does not take in the striking
carpenters at New York, It was said,
because they have insisted on being
dealt with as a special class, which the
shipping board has been unwilling TO
do. The strikers, however, are free to
avail themselves OF the increases and
improved conditions which the adjust
ment board proposes. Formal announce
ment Of details will be made later.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-16
Army Regulations
Delay Letters to
Boys in France

WASHINGTON, Feb. l6-War de
partment regulations primarily have
been responsible for delay in deliver
ing letters from home TO American
forces in France, Second Assistant
Postmaster General Praeger today told
the senate postal committee.
Distribution of mail, he said, largely
is in the hands Of army officers and
for military reasons it is held up,
sometimes ten days or two weeks, after
reaching France, before postoitiee au-
thorities there are advised Of forward
ing addresses of military units.
Reduction in the force OF railway
mail service was defended by Mr.
Pracger, who said that mail t%ransporta.
ton had been expedited
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-16

on a turban and the punch is absent,
one has only to observe the French
and Italian sailors who stroll along
the streets Of our big cities, In order
to see where France got her turban
suggestion q
1t is strange that those foreign
sailors receive far more attention in
our streets than foreign army men.
Even the Scotch soldier in his tight
plaid breeches OF green, yellow aud
black, reaching to the ankles, does not
create az much c%raning OF the neck
as a bunch OF warship boys. The for
mer costume is quite a revelation to
the American public. which believes
that all Scottish fighters are bare
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-16
1000 Selected Men
Soon Will Be Sent
to Camp Doniphar

CAMP poNIPHAN, Okla Feb. 10
-(Spscial) 90 Everything has been
made ready at the ISOLATION camp for
the 1900 drafted men who arc to be
sent here from the national army Word
ha, not been received here when the
men will arrive or from What camp
they will come, but Il il expected they
will come from the first draft quota
The increase Of the sick report iol,
lowing the coming Of the last quota o
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-16

NEW YORK, Feb. l6-From tho
N exhibition OF millinery at the
moment. It il easy to see that the
designers have not lost their fondness
for the peaked crown.
We in America cannot be assured
that this fashion is intended as a COM
nliment to us, When the hat has a
broad brim and the peak is punched
at the top In a careless manner, then
we may say that France Is inspired
by the u, S. A, but when the peak is
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-16

duecd to grow a beard, for which he
was hared al school
The Johnsons separated on the TWEEN
ty.seyenth anniversary Of their mar
Faaua
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-16
UNION MEN URGE
PRESIDENT TO
END SHIP STRIKE
CONTINUED From Page ~

not sign such a document, Mr.. Guerin
asserted, at least until they were given
idea as to minimum wages to be
Contrary to the claims OF the broth
erhood leaders, information reaching
shipping board officials here at noon
indicated that fewer than LOO ship
yard workers were on strike today in
the New York district
$1,000 Idle in Nation.
brotherhood leaders today asserted
there were about 5000 carpenters ide
here owing to scarcity OF material, in
addition to the strikers; and that
throughout the country there were
sl,0W carpenters idle who had been
employed on environments and who
could be turned into shipbuilding work
ers with only a little training. These
estimates were given out, II was stated,
to show that there was plenty OF labor
| available for carrying out the govern
mcnt's shipbuilding program il higher
wages were paid.
The strike would spread from New
York to other cities along the Atlantic
coast. they said, unless wage demands
were granted The number OF men out
here was declared to be between 1000
and 5000.
Situation Encouraging.
Mr.. Hutchinson arranged on the long
distance telephone at his hotel here this
afternoon for a conversation with a
representative of the United States
| shipping board in Washington.
Before this, referring to a conference
in Washington today between fleet cor
poration officials and Assistant Secre
tary Roosevelt of the navy, he ex'
pressed the opinion that the outlook iol
a settlement appeared encouraging. IL
said he looked for an agreement SINH
lar to the one reached by the navy de
partment with the navy yard worker
last October.
10000 Out in East.
In connection with their statement O
the number Of shipyard workers o.
strike. brotherhood officials explalnc
that they had used the term New Yor
district" as comprising all the shi
wards on the North Atlantic coast 70
which New York is the union head
quarters. -,
The number out in this entire di,
trict it was announced early this a.
ternoon, was 10000, who had struck !
forty out of the sixty-fiye yards OF I'll
4 district.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-16

drafted men sent here esussd TIE ~ I
GERS At division headquarters 70 ~
no q detrnkion camp vheFs The ~
will be isolated possIbly two wseks ~
lore being assigned 10 regiments,
Nearly every regiment IN camp u
short OF men.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-16
SAM LoYD's BRAIN FOOD
Minutes TO Digest This.
No. 97B.

No. Wb.
Take a propeller, add a small
animal. subtract a black fluid, sub
tract a limb, add an upright piece
Of timber, add an animal, subtract
a tailor's necessity, add an example
and the resulting letters will spell
OpOSSuM.
Answer to No. ST.
In "a hours the cars were 10
miles apart. that distance being on
the hypothenusc Of a rightangled
triangle formed by the roads.
Copyright, 1918, by sam Loyd)
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-16

The American National Bank 10 dls-
playing a series Of war pictures IN tho
front window Of is Savings Annex.
changing the copy every day. Inc
pictures will be found very interesting.
Take a look as YOU 20 BY. (hdvJ
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-16

This community will grow 10 wealth.
In proportion TO the recruits enlisted
In the new army Of Savers. Are yyou
enlistedl Where's your War Savings
StAmDf
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-16
Kansas City Has Laundry Strike,

KANSAS CITY, Mo, Feb. l6-Ihe
laundry industry in Kansas City, Mo-,
and Kansas City, Kan, virtually was
tied up today as a result OF a strike
of drivers and workers. Several large
laundries had suspended operations and
it was said others would be compelled
TO do likewise.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-16

The War Savings campaign, de-
signed to incre.Se the average OF this
country TO a point undreamed OF, is
gaining great Roadway,
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-16
He Didn't See Plants.

On cross-examination, the witness
acknowledged that wages and working
conditions in the plant were obtained
by talking with employees, as he was
denied admission to the firms premises.
"They will not Yet a labor union OIL
sieial inside the gates" said the wit
ness. "In many instances the plants
boss call on local police to arrest our
organizers for attempting to talk to
the employees near the gates. Thank
God Kansas City is one town the
packers don't own and there the police
let us alone"
The witness declared that " the
packers paid their employees fair wages
there would be no need of the firms
maintaining benevolent and welfare
organizations. He said the employees
were docked half an hour il one minute
late in the morning but were often re-
ouired to work IS to Is minutes over.
time at night without pay.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-16
PACKERS CHARGED
With EMPLOYING
WOMEN OVER MEN
Union Man Says Organizers
Not Allowed In Plants,

CHICAGO, Feb. l6.-Counsel for the
employees in the stock yards wage
arbitration proceedings today asked to
have J. Ogden Armour and Nelson Nor
ris appear this afternoon II possible,
as witnesses before Federal Judge
Samuel Alschuler. ,
Attorneys for the packers protested
but promised to produce both wItne''e,
IL they we're in the city and waved
the necessary service Of %subpoenas.
Women Predominant Nov.
\ Timothy A. McCreash, an organizer
for the Amalgamated heat-C Cutters and
Butchers workmen, concluded his testi-
/ mony this morning Tie accused the
packers OF hiring large numbers OF wo-
men to take the places OF men in many
! OF the plants, especially in Kansas City,
in order to reduce operating expenses.
The women, he said, were employed
In meat trimming, hog singing and
trucking hams and other work formerly
done exclusively by men. The women
he said. receive 20 TO 2h cents an
'fhour. while tho men received M tc
81 cents an hour for the same work.
The witness said that employees ~
The Kansas City, ST. Joseph, Mo, anC
other western plants, received less rate'
of wages than those OF Chicago. h'
said he had not been permitted to wor'
in any Chicago plant since 1893 because
OF his activity in the labor movement.