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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-12-17
ONGRESS FEARS A
"SKY-HIGH" SUGAR
PRICE To CONS UMER

Washington, Dec. 16.--After approx
ing an amendment which would retain
in force the provision OF the food con
troll law giving the president authority
TO control the prices and regulate the
movement Of sugar, the house agricul.
ture committee today ordered a favor.
ehle report Of the aerate bill rcQtnuirc
the United States sugar equalization
board through 1890.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-12-17
Fear High Prices.

Washington, Dee. 16.--Fearing that
the public was threatened with sky.
high" prices for sugar, members of both
branches OF congress have urged the
house agriculture committee to provide
for complete government control Of
prices and distribution. The committee
agreed to take formal action today on
the proposal to eliminate from the Nc.
Nary bill the provision repeating tho
licensing power Of the government.
At the same time the house interstate
commerce committee had before it n
bill which would place an embargo on nj
sugar exports.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-12-17
Railways Resume Distribution.

Washington Dec. l6.--Virtually nor
NAL conditions in the distribution Of coal
have been restored. Tho railroad admin.
istration today began delivering all coal
as billed, except in some few emergency
cases where diversion will be necessary.
The order reducing by % percent the
amount OF coal permitted TO be coled
also was rcscinded.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-12-17
Seek 10 Reopen Cnse.

Washington, Dee. 49, Permission to
institute original proceedings TO have
the national prohibition amendment dc.
clared unconstitutional, ana New Jer.
sey ana federal authorities cuJoincd
from enforcing H., was asked Of the SUI
preme court today. by the retail Ii.
quor dealers association OF New Jcl.
soy
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-12-17

Attorneys for the whislley interests
asked Judge Farris for Il days grace be
fore putting the dissolution of the in
junction into effect. but this was denied.
Judge Farris announced that he would
sign the order of dissolution Of the in.
junction as soon ns it was presented
to him.
District Attorney Hensley and Intern.
al Revenue Collector Moore announced
that they would present the order to
the judge immediately and that the sale
of whiskcy in this district vii! be in VIC.
lation Of the law within the hour.
The injunction was granted 10 num-
erous whlskcy dealers by Judge Far
ris on Dec. 3, and restrained the dis
trict attorney and the collector of in
ternal revenue from interfering with
the sale OF whiskey in this district,
which comprises 54 counties, as we'll
as the city OF St. Louis.
The district attorney announced that
hc &au'd ak4 application .cf a witt al
supersedeaS from the temporary injunc
tion Of Judge Pollock, which permits
the manufacture and sale Of 2.75 per.
cent alcoholic beer as soon as he had
time 10 get 10 II.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-12-17
JOHN BARLEYCORN
IS DYING HARD.
EVE n THOUGH IN
7 He LAST DITCH

Washington, Dec. lG.--An unfavor.
able report on the bill to repeal the war
time prohibition law was ordered today
by the house agriculture committee By
vote Of lG to 3. Representatives John
Y. Ralney, democrat, Illinois. and Volgt,
Wisconsin and Ward New York. repub.
leans, cast the negative vote.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-12-17
With Spfed of the Wind

Paris, Dec. l6.--Sadi Lecointe, the
French aviator in an officially times
test today averaged sos milimcters, 225
meters (about 1S9 miles 247 l-2 yards,
in an hour. At one time he attained a
speed OF 364 kilometers an hour.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-12-17
WIRE SERVICE RESUMED BE-
TWEEN FRANCE AND HUSLAND

Paris, Dec. photographic service
between France and Germany will be
resumed today, according to official an
nouncement.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-12-17
HEAD OF KANSAS
MINERS CITED TO
APPEL R BEFORE
f FEDERAL COURT

Indianapolis, Ind, Dec 1G.-Charges
OF contempt Of court against S4 officials
OF the United Mine Workers OF America.
with one exception. were continued this
morning by United States District Judge
a. =. Anderson until such a date as il "a
deemed advisable to bring the cases
again before the court. Tho exception
Is the charge against Alexander Howat,
president OF the Kansas district OF le
mlno workers who IN charged with
tinued violation OF the courts injunction
against furtherance OF the strife.
Indianapolis, Dee lG.--Hearing on the
contempt charges against international
and district officials Of the United Mine
Workers OF America. except in the case
against Alexander Howat, president
the Kansas district, was postponed in
definitely when called in the United
States district court here today. Howaa
was ordered to oppear next Monday. De.
ccmbcr %, before Cnitcd states District
Judge a. .. Anderson.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-12-17

st. Louis. Mo. Dec. i6.--Motious to
dissolve the temporary injunctions ia,
sued against the district attorney and
the collector OF internal revenue here on
Dec, 3, restraining them from interfer.
ing with the sale of whiskey were grant.
ed by United States Judge Farris in
court here today.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-12-17

the claimant, or were so careless Of
their duties as to call for the most Sc
we're criticisms"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-12-17

Miss Cremer, daughter of the min.
ister from the Netherlands to the
u. s., has arrived in Washington.
She is of the debutante age and will
be a charming addition to the
New-York tribune., 1919-07-29
Twister Hits Mineola,
Destroying Big Martin
Bomber, Handley Page
and the Italian Caproni
Rescuers Swung
Thirty Feet in Air
Two Smaller Machines
Demolished and Roofs
and Hangers Crumple

MINEOLA, L. L, July 28.-Fve air
planes, including the three biggest
machines in America. were smashed in
q ffteen-minute storm which swept
across the flying fields here to-day,
causing damage estimated at many
thousand dollars. One of the wrecked
planes was the Martin bomber in
which Captain Roy N. Francis was to
make his one-stop transcontinental
flight
Everything was in readiness for the
fight but now nothing is left Of the
airplane worth salvage except the
is a mass of tangled wreckage is the
11-ton Handley Page, which lately has
been used to carry passengers over
New York. The third is a Caproni
that has been used by many distin-
guished visitors to Hazelhurst Field.
Storm Is "Twister"
The storm was "twister," and both
wind and lightning centred dead on
men were running. to planes out in
the field, their gaze fixed anxiously on
the black cloud rising swiftly in the
northwest, the first bolt struck, wreck
ing big steel hangar ct the north end
of the field containing the Martin
bomber and the Caproni. =
The heavy structure collapsed like
card house upon the planes, wreck
ing them completely. The next mo-
ment the wind came and played jack
straws with the debris, hinging great
steel girders high into the air, carry
ing them across the field and scatter
IT,
Major J. Y. Chisum, adjutant of the
Long Island flying fields, was toilng
with thirty men he had summoned
from reserve to save the Handley-
Page, which was parked with other
machines at the edge of the field. They
had fastened ropes to the huge plane
and were dragging it across the field
to hangar when the wind struck
them.
Men Swing in Air
1t lifted the machine, the men dan
Cling from the drag ropes, thirty feet
or more in the air, twisted it through
three complete somersaults and
dropped it squarely on it's running
gear in a patch Of soft ground, for
which the pendant soldiers were de-
voutly thankful The force of the
planes impact, however, crumpled up
the running gear and right wing. Re-
pairs,~ it is said, will take weeks and
cost $5O,000 Two other machines in
the line were demolished.
The wind ripped the roof from every
hangar at Roosevelt Field adjoining
on the east and then swept down on
Mitchell Field, where hundreds of SOL
diers were in their tents. In a jiffy
the whole tent city was levelled with
the exception of few units, which
were soaring like balloons. The storm,
Mills, where it levelled tents, ripped
corner off the recreation hall and
blew down a shed.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-29
Mercier to TruueL
Old Indian Trail

Cardinal Mercier. Of Belgium, is
coming to the United States in the
middle of September for a long stay
and will visit all the important cities
of the country, where he will thank
the American people personally for
Americas timely participation in the
war.
1t had been supposed he would not
venture west of the Mississippi, but
his secretary, DR.. Peter Joseph
Stryckes, who arrived yesterday on La
Lorraine, said the cardinal would 90
to the Pacific Coast.
He told me recently that he did not
care to make a haphazard visit" said
Dr.. Stryckes, "and looking over the
map Of the United States decided that
ne would journey to the Pacific Ocean.
One of the places his heart is set on
visiting is Portland, Ore. He is anxious
to Journey through the country of the
Indians to the American Northwest
over the trail his uncle took when the
latter was young missionary in
America
THE cardinal told me that when he
was q boy his uncle, who as an old
man had returned to Belgium, took
him on his knee and told him of the
vicissitudes of the missionaries in
preaching the religion of Christ to the
Indians. This uncle was a brother of
Cardinal Mercier's sister. with whom
the aged missionary lived after his re-
turn to Belgium. The venerable uncle
told the cardinal that the Indians were
wild and that the life was terrible in
the great plains Of the American
Northwest, but that the sufferings of
tho missionaries were we'll worth the
good they had accomplished for the
Indians"
New-York tribune., 1919-07-29
The Other Ifs

II, on the other hand, the school
sxecutives should establish their claim
- autonomy and freedom from city
control, there would arise the following
situation:
fa) A Board of Education appointed
by the Mayor, but not responsible to
a!m in any way.
(b) A board with power to fix and
control expenditures, but without
power 10 raise taxes or issue bonds
Tor the difference between the 49
niils on the city'g assessed valuation,
which is allowed by law, and the
sesuai school needs, which are uyu-
s''y some millions greater.
tcj lack Of any power competent
snd equipped TO review the boards
finances.
sd) A board, probably political in
eharacter, and composed of unframed
ana unpaid citizens, 10 check the
YORK Of the financial and educational
sxperts-a condition ideal for the
sFowth Of school Bureaucracy.
Your ProposaIs
70 straixhten out this situation, one
New-York tribune., 1919-07-29
Japan toGive
Up Kiao-chau,
Says Diplomat
Toxic Prepared to Return
Sovereignty to Chinese,
Counsellor of Embassy
at Washington Believes

WASHINGTON, July 28.-Mr. Debu
chi, Chancellor of the Japanese EN-
bassy, charge in the absence of Wis
count Ishii, conferred at the State De-
partment with Secretary Lansing to-
day.
So far as is known no formal re-
quest has been made upon the Japanese
Embassy by the Administration to is
sue any statement regarding the Japa-
nese purposes as to Shantung, but Mr..
Debuchi was willing to discuss the sub
Ject with The Associated Press, with
the distinct understanding, however,
that he was expressing his own per
sonal views.
In answer to a question as to what
was to be the final disposition of the
Japanese troops in Shantung, Mr.. De-
buchi replied:
Japan has firmly determined to re-
store to China her sovereignty over the
leased territory of Kiao- -chau, which
sovereignty was conferred upon Ger
many in accordance with the stipula
tions of the treaty between China and
Japan in 1908.
Japan is not only prepared to re-
store that property to China, but also
Is ready to open negotiations to that
end with China as soon as possible.
The railroad between Tsinptau and
Tsinaufu, which formerly was under
the exclusive management of Ger
many, will be placed under the JOINT
operation OF China and japan. Like
wise the fortified port of Tsinptau.
formerly exclusively controlled by
Germany and practically a closed Dor.
to the rest of the world, will he
opened to foreign trade generally
without discrimination.
Japan contemplates the mai ten
ance in Tsingtau in the future of a
Japanese settlement and also an inter
national settlement. The situation
there will be practically like that a.
Shanghai, where there is French
settlement and an international settle
ment.
Germany enjoyed and exercised the
rights of stationing troops in Kiao-
chau, under the terms of her treaty
with China. Japan. however, in vie "
of the fact that she has determined
to restore sovereignty over Kiau-
chau to China, is firmly determined
to withdraw every one of her troops
actually stationed in Shantune Just as
soon as possible.
The above dispositions, however,
are subject to the signature Of the
German peace treaty by China and to
a subsequent agreement by China with
japan in regard to the disposition of
the restored territories"
New-York tribune., 1919-07-29
House Votes to End
Tnx on Ice Cream

WASHINGTON, July 28.-Repeal Of
the tax on ice cream and soft drinks
served at fountains was agreed to by
the House to-day, when a resolution
introduced by Representative Fordney,
of Michigan, chairman of the Ways and
Means Committee, was passed after a
political debate.
The reasons given by the committee
urging repeal were:
''First-This tax is inequtable, in
that it is applicable to certain COM
modities when consumed at specific
places, while the same commodities
consumed elsewhere are exempt. Ex
pensive dishes of ice cream sold in
restaurants and hotels are not taxed,
while penny portions sold to chill
dren as sandwiches and hockey
pokey' are taxed as high as 100 per
cent.
"Second-This tax provision is diff
ficult of construction and expensive
in application.
"Third-Ice cream is clearly a food
product, and, in general, tax on an
article Of food is wrong in principle
and should be avoided. The Treasury
Department estimates this tax will
produce $21,000,000 per annum, but
the revenue is not commensurate
with the burdens it imposes on the
consumers, large proportion of
whom are children"
The Democrats strongly opposed the
repeal, asserting that the Republicans
could not justify before the country the
repeal Of tax on luxuries rather than
on necessities.
Representative Kitchen, Of North
Carolina, predicted there would be a
billion dollar deficit.
Representative Longworth, of Ohio,
raised Mr.. Kitchen, predicting a
two billion dollars deficit He urged
the repeal. however, declaring the tax
the most abnoxious consumption tax
ever imposed.
ut is tax on the youngster buy
ing an Ice cream cone or a drink Of
pop on 4 day like this said Mr.. Long
worth, wiping his brow, "and don't
think Congress should permit little
children to be taxed so to 100 per cent
in this manner"
New-York tribune., 1919-07-29
Envoy Cot 1000 Salary
From Germany and Said
Carranza Was a Fine
Man, Asserts Witness
Rulers Band of Outlaws
Commercial Alliance With
Teutons Projected, He
Tells House Committee
Netr York Tribune
WASHINGTON Bureau

N dShtn0ton Bureau
WASHINGTON, July 28.-Loot, Boil
shevism and pro-Germanism are the
three outstanding features of the Car
rama regime in Mexico, DR.. William
T. Gates, Cleveland archeologist and
close friend of Secretary Baker. told
the House Rules Committee TODAY.
DR.. Gates, who passed years in
Mexico and was the guest of Carranza
and every rebel and bandit chief of
consequence from Villa and zapata
down, charged that CarranZa "has
played US from the beginning"
The committee was especially inter
ested because DR.. Gates was, before
going into Mexico. an ardent Carranza
man. Some of his more important state
ments were:
1. That President Wilson was be-
trayed by Carranza, whose govern
ment lis not government, but a
band of outlaws"
9. That rampant Bolshevism exists
now in Yucatan.
Baker Warned of Wireless
8. That Secretary Baker was told
in the spring of 1913 that powerful
wireless outfits in Mexico were COM
municatng with Germany via Spain,
and that these continued to operate.
a: That Carranza considers the
United States and England 1.-The two
greatest ogres of civilization"
5. That the secretary of the Ameri-
can Socialist party in April, 1919,
communicated with General Cbregon,
Bolsheviki and Carranza confidant,
asking his opinion of a propitious
time for unified action by the radicals
Of Canada, Cuba, Mexico and the
United States.
6. That William Bayard Hale went
to Mexico for President Wilson and
came back drawing $4,000 a year
from the German government, after
reporting that Carranza was a fine
man." Lincoln Steffens made the
same report, he said.
7. That every official in the Car
rama government has freedom to
loot"
8. That the State Department
Continued on page four
New-York tribune., 1919-07-29
-Four Distinct Solutions of
the Tangle Bet,veen
Board and City Author-
tiles Are Suggested
One FIXES Board
for Each Borough
Plan to Turn Entire Sys-
tenn OUer to State
Also Is Considered

"The Euening IVorld'' yesterday
quoted Mayor Hylan as folloUs re-
garding The Tribune's exposure of
the fight that is going on over the
control Of the school system:
That story is nothing more than
a lot of bunk-manufactur out
Of whole cloth. No doubt it is
inspired by few gentleme.4 who
attempted to run the schools as a
private enterprise for their espe-
cial benefit. Having failed they
now seek to give the impression
among state school authorities that
the schools of New York City are
in q fearful muddle. Of course,
such is not the case. On the con-
trary, the schools are now being
restored to their old-time efficiency.
The last traces Of Garyism, which
threatened to ruin our school sys-
tenn, are about to be eradicated,"
New-York tribune., 1919-07-29

But That slight Operation
Wilson Deceived by Hale
On Mexico, Says DIR. Gates
american, Aduised BY
Mexico to Pay Ransom,

WASHINGTON, July 2S.-Acting
" upon the advice of the Mexi-
can government, John West Thomp-
son, an American ranchman, living
near Mexico City, has paid the
1900 pesos ransom demanded by
bandits for the release of his four
teen-year-old son, the State Depart
ment was advised to-day. The
Mexican authorities said they feared
the bandits would murder the bow.
The boy was released as soon as the
money was paid.
Secretary Lansing said the Mexi-
can Foreign Office had agreed to re-
fund the amount of the ransom and
take measures for the punishment
of the bandits.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-29
chicago Race Riots Renewed; Death Toll May Be 5;
President Will Hurry French Treaty to the Senat
u. S. Bankers Deny
Big LOa, to Germany

7 ONDON, July 2S.-An American
loan of $l0O,O0O,Oo0 has been OBJ
tanned by Martin Nordegg, represent
ing the Deutsche Bank of Berlin, ac-
cording to an Exchange Telegraph
dispatch from Berlin. 1t was said
10 per cent of the loan would be de-
posted in foreign bonds to the Ger
man banks credit.
international bankers here, who
handled German business before the
war, including that or the Deutsche
Bank, say they know nothing of
Martin Nordegg or the $10o,0O0,O00
loan.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-29

II yov can ssye money
Yen can invest while you ssve
Asx f1r particulars 81
r. .FAstisl Payment Plan.
I SSns An1r 4 Co.. 81 t. way. --Advt.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-29

Continued on page sir
New-York tribune., 1919-07-29
By Stanley Frost

The squabbles that beset the school
xys.em will be carried before the Legis-
lsture next winter. At least four diff
ferent solutions of the problem will
be offered. The education law, which
probably has been the subject of more
tinkering than any other on the statute
books, will be remodeled again. The
existing curiosities of the law divide
themselves into two classes, namely:
(O Those which will remain if the
school executives win their fight for
autonomy, and
(2) Those which will be there if the
city authorities succeed in making
good the powers they are now trying
to exercise. Among the latter are:
(a) A dual control of the school
system, with the State Board of Re-
gents empowered to demand certain
systems of accounting and certain
forms of instruction, but with the
city authorities holding the purse
strings, with all the power that this
implies, whether they use it or not.
(b) lack Of fexibility in expen-
ditures under the budget, which has
to be prepared months in advance of
the actual needs, and which only
with difficulty can be changed to
meet actual conditions as they de-
velop
(c) Control Of the city's educa-
tional system by political city ad-
ministration.
td) Lack of responsibility as be-
tween the Board of Education, the
Board Of Regents and the Board of
Estimate for school expenditures and
policies, making it impossible to
hx TIE blame for mistakes, and offer
Ing hrst-clacs alibi for every one
concerned.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1919-10-16
TREATY VOTE BY NOV. |
80
Senate Expects Final Disposition
of, Pact BY That Date.
Leaders Discuss Closing Of Session for
Thirty Day Rest Before
Regular Session.

Washington. Oct. 6.-With disposi-
ton of the peace treaty expected by
November /, congressional leaders are
discussing prospects of closing the ex-
%traordinary session, which began May
10, so as to have a months rest before
the regular December session begins.
The amendment relating to Shan
tung is to be taken Up at once with
a vote expected in a few days. Amend
ments by Senators Johnson. Califor-
mia, and Moses, New Hampshire. Re-
p%ublicans, to equalize votes of the
United States and Great Britain in the
league of nations are to follow. Lead
ers hope that by the middle OF next
week all amendments will be disposed
Of. Reservations hen will be consid-
cred.
President Wilson's illness may have
an effect on the treaty situation. It
is not expected to cause any substan-
tial delay In considering the pact
while the amendments are before the
senate, but when reservations are
reached the Presidents counsel is
deemed necessary, as Democratic
leaders have not had opportunity to
discuss with him what reservations
would be acceptable.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1919-10-16
CORN CROP SHOWS BIG GAIN
Nations Yield Estimated to Be 1900.
$1,000 Bushels.


Washington, Oct. 9.-The country's
enormous corn crop has. run un-
harmed the gauntlet of dangers that
faced 1t during the doubtful days and
nights of September and lays into the
lap of mellow October 4 5000. 900
bushels more Of ripened ears than it
could promise at the beginning OF that
MONTH" the Department of .Agricul-
ture commented in issuing the Oc-
tober crop report f~orecasting a yield
Of 2,900,511,0 900 bushels. Practically
all of the crop has, or will, mature
without frost damage. assuring high
feeding value. Husking and cribbing
has begun.
Blight, scab and black rust. together
with minor ills, brought the good early
prospects for spring wheat in the
North Central producing section down
until the reckoning now shows almost
5000. 0C0 bushels less than forecast a
month age. the total crop being placed
at 2o3, 170.o 0 bushels.
Barley showed an increase of more
than 5000 bushels, while potatoes an
Increase OF $4,000 bushels, buck.
wheat 0 1900 bushels, apples 3.47s, 900
bushels and beans 1897. 900 bushels.
Reduced forecasts were given for
oats with a yield lessened by 5.294.O0
bushels, sweet potatoes with q de-
crease OF s07. 900 bushels and tobacco
with $4,000 pounds.