Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-04-12

day that a contract had been signed
with the Curtiss Airplane and Motor
Corporation of Buffalo, N. Y, for the
sale of 4,6O8 Curtiss Ox-5 motors, 1915
J. Ma planes without motors, and
LOO standard planes without motors.
The contract calls for the payment
of $2,270,000 for this property which,
the war department announced, from
the standpoint of use by the army, is
obsolete and worn.
Members of the special mission Of
the Philippine legislature at Washing
ton seeking immediate independence
for the islands, were told Friday by
| Secretary Baker that he spoke Presi-
| dent Wilson's mind when he said he
| believed the time had come to grant
the complete independence desired by
the Filipino people.
Army reorganization plans upon
which the war department is now
working, it was learned this week,
provide for an air service with ap-
proximately LOO airplanes in actual
commission and a minimum available
reserve of 3,400 additional planes. This
is based upon the proposed military
estimate of 5O9,000 men, in which total
the air service personnel will be 1923
officers and 21,853 men.
Approval by President Wilson of the
life Imprisonment sentence imposed
upon Corporal James c. Skiles, 321st
Machine Gun Battalion of Carthage,
Mo-, who was convicted of having kill
ed Sergeant George Onken of Minok.
H., at Trondes, France, August 10,
1918, was announced by the war de-
partment Thursday.
So far as the army is concerned any
beverage containing IA per cent of
alcohol will be considered 'fntoxicat-
ing" This decision of the judge ad-
vocate general was approved Wednes-
day by Secretary Baker.
The meat packing industry, which |
has been under. federal license since
October, 1917, was released Tuesday |
AAOA4 1OOO SOAtAO4 Ny q |
proclamation signed by President Will
son in Paris. Under the proclamation /
"all persons, firms, corporations or as
sociations engaged in importing, man
ufacturing, including packing, storing |
or distributing fresh. canned or cured |
beef, pork, mutton or lard" are re-
leased from license by the food admin /
istration
Necessity for the prompt discharge |
Of all men who can be spared from the
army and whose enlistment contracts /
do not hold them beyond the period of |
the war, is emphasized by General |
March, in circular of instruction to
Rehabilitation officers made public /
Tuesday at the war department "The
attention of all is again directed" it
says, ito the importance of discharg-
ing from the military service as rapid
ly as they can be spared all men draft
ed or enlisted only for the period of
the emergency"
f.
STATE AND DOMESTIC NEWS.
Governor Hobby has signed house
bill No. 255 and it will become a law
on June Is. According to R. H Hoff-
man, food and drug commissioner of
Texas, this bill will enable the state
to stop the sale of all misbranded pat
ent remedies, as we'll as their adver-
tisements. The so-called consumption
cures and influenza cures win be
curbed, says the commissioner.
Formation of large cotton export
corporation and the establishment of
state owned and controlled cotton
warehouses throughout every cotton
producing state of the South will be
urged at the third big cotton conven-
ton which Governor Pleasant of Louis
lana has called in Memphis, Tenn,
April 10.
Liquor valued at over $4,000 has
been confiscated at Crowley, La, in
he two-day raid of federal agents op-
Grating under Deputy Internal Reve-
1ue Collector Douglas.
Governor Hobby Friday vetoed sem
ate bill 17S, creating Texas state
banking department and fixing the
commissioners salary at $4,000 per
annum.
Selecting Freeport as the next point
If meeting, the third monthly confer
snce of the Texas Ports Traffic Asso-
,iation ended its deliberations in Port
Arthur. Texas, Thursday.
The board of aldermen at st. Louis,
No., by vote Of rs to 1 Friday adopt
ID resolution denouncing the nation
vide prohibition law. effective July l.