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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-03
Big Hun Gun
Is Shattered,
Killing Creu
Ninth BOmbardment Of Paris
Is Commenced WedneS-
day Morning,

PARIS, April 3--1hc Germans again
began to lombard Paris at $50 orlock
this morning This was the ninth bonn.
bardment OF the city. One Of the Ger
man long range guns bombardlng Paris
burst, according to prisoners captured
on the French front, five Of the gun
crew being killed. This announcement
was made officially last night
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-03
LORD WELLESLEY
LEAVES Fl. WORTH

FORT WORTH, Texas, April g.
Lord George Wellesley and family left
today for New York The grandson
Of the Duke Of Wellington, who is now
lieutenant colonel in the Royal Fly
ing Corps, has been in command of one
OF the wings in Fort Worth all wintn.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-03
HairStakedOn
Hun Victory;
Boys Clip 1t
Sulphur Policeman Treated
Like Samson for His
Boasts of War,

SULPHUR, Okla, April j.-Rcv
H. { Capers, II years Old an al
legged Pro.German, made the boast
IN recent speeches in Murray county
that he would never have his hair
cut until Germany won the war.
Last night about sixty young men
oi this vicinity, awaiting draft call
invaded Capers' room in a local
hotel while he was asleep. and
shaved his head clean. Each ono
oi the tonsorial party now has a
lock Of the mans hair as a first
,rophy Of war.
Spread Seditious Tracts.
Capers, il i' alleged, has been
making seditious statements at
meetings held in this section Of the
state, and has distributed "The
Finished Mystery and other for
bidden tracts. On this charge he
will face trial'at Tulsa April TO-
The minister was heard to repeat
his boast yesterday that he would
not be shorn Of his locks until the
kaiser trlumphed on the western
front. The news soon spread over
the town, and by nlghtfall a vigi-
lance committee Of men Of draft
age awaiting calls to the colors,
took the matter into their own
hands.
And Samson Was Shorn.
Armed with a pot OF yellow paint,
several pairs OF scissors and bar
ber's paraphernalia. the young men
entered Capers' room, while he was
asleep, and re-enacted Samson and
Delilah's famous shearing scene.
Iron gray and white tresses which
had adorned the erStwhile friend of
the Hohenkollerns were clipped al
the scalp and distributed among the
party. When il came time 10 apply
the razor, Capers awoke and Of
fered feeble resistance. Held in
chair, the finishing touches were
put on, and his head was soon as
bald as a billiard ball.
Then the vigilantes forced the
wayward citizen to kiss the flag,
pledge allegiance to the United
States, promise not to speak Sc
ditiously again, and directed him
the route out of town.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-03
French Gain Some
And Block Foe

PARIS, April 5-German attacks
south of Moreuil last night, were re-
pulsed by the French fire and the
enemy was unable to gain a footing in
any part Of the French positions, the
war office announces, except at one
point The French also broke up a
German attack near Rollot and gained
ground north OF Plemont.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-03
Cloudy and Colder
Weather Forecast

LOCAL FoREcAsT-Cloudy, unsettled
and colder tonight with minimum tenn.
perature 90 TO 36 degrees. Fair weather
ThursdaV.
STATE FoREcAsT-cloudy with rain
or snow In north portloni colder with
freezing Temperature In worth portion.
Thuradav. fair
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-03
Noyon Cathedral
Is Put in Flames
by Bombardment

AMSTERDAM, April J,-The eaths-
dral at Noyon is afire. according to. a
,seml-offieial statement from Berlin.
. The blaze Is attributed by the Germans
to the French bombardment.
The cathedral Of Noyon is one ot the
most beautiful French examples OF the
transition style of architecture OF the
eleventh and twelfth centuries. A poT-
tieo was added in the fourteenth cen
turn and the chapels of the nave were
built in the fourteenth and sixteenth
centuries.
Round and pointed arches are used
throughout the building and the two
western towers which are unfinished,
are 200 feet high
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-03
BULLETINS

WASHINGTON, April 3s-A
resolution providing for the taking
over and operating by the govern
msnt Of packing houses was intro
duced today by Senator Thompson
Of Kansas, and referred to the agri-
culture committee.
TOXIC, Thursday, March "a
Il is learned from an authoGative
source that an agreement has been
concluded under which Japan will
turn over to the United States 49,
900 tons Of shipping
WASHINGTON, April J.--Angus
D. Mcdonald Of New York, vice
president and controller of the
Southern Pacific, was appointed to-
day by Director General McAdoo
as treasurer for the railroad admin
istration. He will have charge Of
the s5Oo,000yOoo revolving fund and
Of financial transactions between
individual companies and the rail
road administration, ..-
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-03
BERGER CARRIES
M|LWAUKEEBURC;
LENRooT ELECTED
Republicans Lead Over Davies
About 5000 Votes,

. MILWAUKEE,, Wis, April 5.-With
official returns from Sixty-six out Of the
seventy-one counties in Wisconsin, in
cluding seventeen counties with COM
plete returns, Congressman Irvine l..
Lenroot republican, was leading Joseph
z. Davies, democrat by 8,S7S votes
for the United States senatorship from
this state to succeed Paul o. Hustng
The count at noon was
Lenroot, l3o,sos.
Davies, 12i,o33.
Berger, ss,o36
Victor L. Berger, socialist, carried
Milwaukee by a good plurality over
Davies. Lenroot polled only $4,000 votes
IN the city, The city vote was; Len
ro9t, l5,442; Davies, 1897, and Berger
The last hope for Davies disappeared
with returns from all but four Mil
waukee precincts, which gave Davies a
lead over Lenroot or l4,SS5 and this
ansas not sufficient to overcome the Len
root plurality in other parts of the state,
or 24,lj0
Republican Majority Cut.
Two widely divergent influences
namely, pro-Germanism and the plea
Wilson wants Davies" cut heavily into
the normal republican majority.
Since the inception of the campaign
every leader has insisted that the 10y
atty. of the state was being Judged by
the nation. The socialist platform which
flatly opposes the presidents policy OF
peace with victory, offered refuge for
the ballots of the disloyal element Pa
triots all accepted this vote as a test
and on that basis the state has appar-
emily voted loyal by three TO one.
Three Cities Go Dry.
Superior the third city in the state,
Ashland and Beloit, surprised many
voters by voting dry at Yesterdays elrc-
ton Fort Atkinson, Grand Rapids,
Green Bay, Sturgeon Bay. Beaver Dam,
GAINESVILLE and Menominee, we're among
the more important towns which re-
tanned their saloons.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-03
ARMY TO SPEED
Up NEXT DRAFT
TO AID ALLIES
Second Call 10 Be for Planned
100000, However
WON'T COVER WHOLE YEAR
Program for Overseas Troops
May Not Be Exceeded,

WASHINGTON. April j.-Mca,ures
to speed up the draft progam are in
contemplation and an Official announce.
menl is expected soon. The intention
/, to meet the emergency In France
For this reason the 10000 to be called
this year will be called more rapidly
than was previously planned
10000 hen.
War department officials said no ar
rangements were In sight looking to
calling out mous than the 10000 men,
II was planned to take into the service.
Reports that the draft would he
raised from 10000 men TO 100000,
was denied
Officials do not regard Il as possible
that more men will be sent abroad this
year than the department already has
arranged to summon, even with addi-
tional British shipping made available
as troop transportation. There are now
under arms here and in Europe more
than 10000 American soldiers.
10000 by End OF Year.
The number will have been raised "a
about 2,SOOOU by the end of the year
counting draft men, volunteers and spe.
cial technical forces 10 be enlisted.
II Il Is possible TO get total OF 500.
600 men to France by January |, III,
best previous hopes OF the war depart
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-03
.CzERN|N CLAIMS
FRANCE PROPOSED
SEPARATE TRUCE
"Liar" CIemenCeau Exclaims
When He Learns Of Speech,
MINISTER MAY RESIGN
Count Plans Leaving Post
When Rumania Is Settled,

COPENHAGEN, April S,--It 10
psrsis,sntly rumorsd In well In
formed circles that Count crsrnin,
the Ausiro- Hungarian foreign min
lister, intends TO resign a. soon %
peace with Rumanis has been finally
secured, says the Budapss, news
paper Al Est, In reporting that
Emperor Charles received Count
cIsrnN at a lsnEthy audience on
Sunday.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-03

h"HtNbl ShsllNu ANNttNNu WYNN
cIernN at q isngthy audience on
Sunday.
LONDON, April J--Austris- Hun
gary was recently almost on the point
of beginning peace negotiations with
the entente" Count CIernin the Austro-
Hungarian foreign minister, declared
yesterday in an address to the Vienna
municipal council The wind suddenly
he added, the entente deciding
10 await Developments In his countfyA
which caused II to hope that the dual
monarchy would soon be deienselsss,
The foreign ministers words were,
Recently we were almost on the
point OF entering Into negotiations with
the western powers, when the wind sud.
denly yccred around, and, as we know
with certainty, the entente decided Il
had better wait, as parliamentary and
political events In our country justified
the hope that the monarchy would soon
be defenseles' .
France Asked For Peace.
Count Crernin No declared that
1 Premier ClemsscSGu Of France, had
A,ked- AHltxiAsH Hyssery ,oa. .xhat Aaslg
she Would negc(iate btE0 lItiif w.
piled that the only obslStN 10 peace
with France was Alsaes- Lorraine, aud
Premier Clemenreau said that II was
impossible TO negotiate on that basis.
Berlin Instructed Answer.
NC........... I.fa.. sk. Al
iehsive began" Count C,ernin said,
Premier Clemenceau addressed to mo
an inquiry whether and upon what basis
| was prepared TO negotiate In agree.
ment with Berlin, | Immediately replied
that | was prepared TO negotiate and
that as far as France was concerned
the only obstacle could see in the way
Of peace was the French desire for
Alsace Lorraine. A reply from Paris
was that il was impossible to negotiate
on this basis Thcreupon there was
no choice left.
VIII Stick BY Germany
The colossal struggle in the west has
already begun Austro-Hungaran and
German troops are fighting shoulder 10
shoulder, as they fought In Russia,
Serbia, Ruinania and itay we arc
lighting tosether Tor me defense OK
Austria-H Hungary and Germany. Come
what may we will not sacrifice Gef-
manys interests any more than she
will leave US In the lurch. We arc
not fighting for imperialistic or an
nexationist aims for ourselves OF tor
Germany"
The Austria Hungarian foreign min
lister, according to an Amsterdam. dis.
patch TO the Daily Chronicle, declared
also that he had an earnest desire Tor
peace and that his country wished to
avoid any further military offensive.
Austria Wants Status Quo.
After referring to his reply to Pre-
mier Clemenceau regarding Alsaee-Lor-
raine, he said Austria would insist on
a status quo, adding
The aspirations of France and ftalv
are utopias which will be terribly
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-03
BRITISH SCORE
IN LOCAL MOVES
IN ARRAS SECTOR
Town Of Ayette, Southwest of
Town, WreSted From Huns,
FRENCH DEFY NEW BLOWS
Haig'S Men Storm and Take
Position Near Hebuterne,
BULLETIN.

LONDON, April J.-"There are
indications that an Austrian attack
on Italy is In preparation and we
shall not be surprised II II develops
before long" said Mai. Gen. Y. B.
Maurice, chief director OF military
operations at the war office, in his
weekly talk today.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-03

LONDON, April British troop,
after sharp fighting last night, rcpulsed
a determined attack by the Germans in
the neighborhood Of Fampoux, the war
office announced today
The town OF Ayette (about sigh'
miles southwest oi Arr.j) is again in
British possession, the statement an
nounccS.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-04-16
AS EXPECTED

What might have been expected has hap
pened along the battle line in France
when bunch of American soldiers had fair
chance to test their metal in close combat
with the Teutons. The Americans held their
own after a manner that is arousing pride
on this side of the Atlantic, result that
must inspire our soldiers in France with
new enthusiasm and courage
How truly and faithfully they are taking
part in the world war is being brought to
mind more frequently now as we scan the
reports from the Americans in the trenches
in Europe. Nearly every day the cable
brings the names of some brave boys who
die or are wounded or captured while OPP
posing the Germans These names will keep
on coming, for that is what we must expect
as the result of war-something not to be
escaped. But our boys knew that when they
went under their country's flag to whatever
hardship or fate might await them. and
they are going to do their part like the true
Americans they are. And if there is anxiety
and arduous waiting here at home, for those
to whom the boys are near and dear, the
homefolks, too, will bear their part as peo-
pie should who are loyal to their country
and who believe in the justice of the cause
to which we are all committed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-04-16
FELLOWSHIP AND WEATHER.

8 In spite of punsters the weather will con-
tinue to be neighborly theme on meeting,
and Its solace will not grow dim with the
flight of time. 1t often happens that you
see friend coming along the street in your
direction to whom you feel duty bound to
address some fraternal word in passing, but
to save your soul you can think of nothing
new or especially worth while. Just hum
drum good morning or good evening is not
quite enough for the case before you So
you turn to the dear old weather with as
much eagerness as a sinner turns to the
fountains of grace. 1t is your haven in a
time of stress, and you accept it as readily
as Frenchman does his pate de foie gras-
goose liver pie. Long live the weather as a
momentary theme of fellowship.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-04-16
Learn From the Cemetery;
No One Worries There

In an article in the American Magazine
one man says to another who was very SEN
sltlve and worried great DEAL
Exactly he grunted "A few years ago
they were live men like you and me- They
grew up and did their business and loved
and married and died. Some of them passed
happily along their way, believing the best
of their fellows, doing their jobs whole
heartedly and well, spreading a bit of sun
shine among the folks they came into con-
tact with, extracting every drop of sweet
ness from every single day. And others
went through, wrapped up inside their own
little selves, envying their neighbors, fancy
ing themselves abused, worrying over trifes,
always on the lookout for Sights, spelling
a full so per cent. of their days through
their own pettiness. And few DAYS pass,
and they all are laid out here together. the
men who laughed their way through life
and made others laugh a little more. and
the men who gnawed their hearts out. All
lying side by side, never to live again.
Think of the things that those dead
men worried about. What do they amount
to now? Think of the good luck that they
enVled IN other fellows Who in the world
remembers it? They had one little lifetime
to live, and they spoiled it by over-sensitive
ness and jealousy. Doesn't it strike YOU as
an awfully foolish way to waste lifetime.
when it's the only lifetime that you will ever
have?'"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-04-16
MOI ONE SPY PUNISHED.

Assertions by Senator Overman that enc
my agents in one of the principal airplane
plants of this country have engaged on a
wholesale scale in murderous practices
against our airmen raises the demand that
cannot be ignored for fitting punishment of
such acts.
There have been numerous instances of
enemy activity brought to light in our courts
since the war began, many of them result
ing in convictions Because of inadequacy
of our civil laws to deal drastically with
these things the punishment prescribed has
been so minor as to to be ridiculous.
If tolerance had not exhausted itself in
any of the previous cases surely it must
cease to exist after the Overman revela-
tions. Americans have been and are both
easy-going and unvindictive. 1t requires no
vindictiveness now to insist that the punish
ment of acts directed against the welfare of
our cause and the very lives of our men in
uniform be made proportional to the offense
1t is the duty of the government to provide
way to deal with treason, espionage and
murder committed on behalf of the enemy.
Not the least of the omissions of our
policy has been in the fact that of the thous-
ands of enemy agents caught in this coun-
try since year ago when we went to war
not one has paid for his crime with his dis
honorable life. 1t is not matter of hatred.
! az all. 1t is just the lives of our soldiers
against the lives Of spies.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-04-16
The Spring Rain.
From the Dublin Tribune.

The soft patter of spring rain at
night is peculiarly soothing. Other to-
kens of the vernal season may excite
more comment, but the flow of water
from the darkened heavens has some
thing very reassuring about it.-Daw-
son News.
It's only in this glorious southland of ours
that Editor Rainey's conception, of the cool
ing, refreshing spring rains is realized to the
fullest. It's when the farmer has his corr
planted in the ground, and is nearly ready
to drill the cotton seed into the burrows
that the full meaning of the gentle spring
rain is appreciated. How much depends up.
on that rain. Without it great food crops
cannot be made, and the tender cotton
plant, which is susceptible to more kinds OF
weakness than almost any species of vegeta.
bic life, is unable to rear itself for its -four
or five months of marvellous development
upon which the prosperity of half the ma
ton rests.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-04-16
DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEGROES.

From the Wesleyan Christian Advocate.
Prof: Gilbert, of Payne College, gives out
the following facts showing the progress OF
the negroes In 1868 the negro population
of this country was 100000; in 1917 it
was more than 100000. In 1868 there
was one home for every 800 negroes; in
1917 there was one for every twenty ne
groes. The negroes own in the South fifteen
times as many homes as they owned in the
beginning of their freedom These figures
do not indicate any serious oppression of
the negroes by the white people of the South.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-04-16
DEFIANCE


The address of President Wilson in Balti-
more was, by all Odds the best he has made
1t ripped the velvet off and revealed, what
Germany alone is known to respect, the
iron hand. Germany, concluded the presi-
dent
'has said that force and force alone
shall decide whether justice and peace
shall reign in the affairs of men, wheth
er right as America conceives it or do
minion as she conceives it shall deter
mine the destinies of mankind
There is therefore but one response
possible from us!
Force, force to the utmost, force
without stint or limit"
Small wonder that the crowd that heard
him cheered when he had finished. The pres
ident, indeed, had interpreted the American
soul
The principal contribution of the Balti-
more address is a restoration of the high
tone of resolve and determination to our
public diplomacy, That tone had been I'M
fortunately weakened by former utterances.
The president will find that he has &C.
complished more toward uniting the coun-
try back of him by one plain spoken and I'M
qualified defiance than by all the talk of a
pacifist millennium that had figured in GER
tain earlier statements.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-04-16

How smoothly we have slipped into the
new order of things that requires US to rise
an hour earlier in the morning, and, per-
force, to retire approximately an hour ear
lier in the evening-how smoothly and
readily, though we carry in our conscious
ness the knowledge that it is all part of a
genial hoax, that things are not as they
seem. By quite a preposterous enactment
which has not Joshua like, compelled the
sun to stand still, but which legislates our
world an hour ahead we are supposed to
achieve certain economic savings.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-04-16
THE TIGHT WAD.

From the Marietta Journal.
If there is anything on earth that gives
US longing for eternal rest and deep, damp
solitude it is the man who comes to town,
builds up big, paying business, grows rich,
and then ssquats down on his gold like hen
on a door knob, and is too stingy even to let
the graVels grind in his own gizzard. A real,
genuine 18-karat stingy, selfish man can't
be honest, and if he ever gets to heaven and
has wings he will fold them up and walk for
fear he will rufie plume or lose a tail
feather.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-04-16

The News is glad to join in commenda-
ton and appreciation of the patriotic spirit
of Dawson firms and institutions that are
promoting the liberty bond campaign Read
ers of this paper are bound to notice the
large liberty bond advertisements appear
ing each week. These advertisements are
paid for by the firms whose names appear
in the advertising space. 1t is an evidence
of public spirit and patriotism that we have
not seen manifested at many places, and is
certainly an enduring credit to those home
institutions who are willing to do so much
for country and cause.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-04-16

LAGRANGE was the first town in Georgia
and one of the first in the country to raise
its quota in the third liberty loan drive 1t
is always gratifying to come out first in a
contest. 1t is doubly so when the contest is
not one of taking but of giving, when the
exaltaton of a moral thing is added to the
human zest in the substance of a triumph
We congratulate Lagrange.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-04-16

I'VE are glad Atlanta at last has a de-
cision in the port rate case. It would have
been pity for such darling child to have
considered itself permanently abandoned"
says the Savannah Press. In this that old
Atlanta camoufage which worked the state
into such frenzy and swept certain dis
hnguished Atlanta politician into the gov
ernor's chair?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-04-16

The Thomasville Enterprise thinks
a few old laws should be enforced before
making so many new ones, and the Griffin
News and Sun is of the opinion that con-
gress and the state legislatures should re-
peal few thousand useless laws now cum
bering the statute books. Both are good
ideas. But congress, after being almost con-
tinuously on the job for fve years, is still
busy, and in few weeks our own Georgia
legislature will begin its annual grind
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-04-16

The Chinese do it, too. A department
store was opened recently in Shanghai, and
the Chinese are going there rather than to
amusement places, finding it more interest
ing to walk around and pick up bargains
than to patronize the theatre. They are
credited with buying things they do not
need, just as people do in the United States.
Human nature is pretty much the same all
the world over.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-04-16

The people who are grumbling because
sugar is so scarce are grandchildren of
sturdy pioneers who were perfectly happy
if they could get long sweetnin' in their
coffee and cakes,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-04-16

Senator Hardwick may be ever so loyal
to his country and honest in his convictions,
but he will find that he is out of HARMONY
with the people of the state just at this
time. They believe that in the present crisis
there should be united effort.