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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-08-09
BARRON Is EDITOR
OF ROTARY PAPER;
LONG-WINDED, TOO

When Gaylord Nelson left town to
spend a few weeks with home folks
lack In Michigan, James Barron. was
made editor OF the ARC Light which
is the weekly paper published by the
Rotarians
Tho name Of the paper was changed
to THE Orphan during the absence
Of It's "versa tile and talented editor
ond James Barron gets up n paper
equally as interesting .s Nelson lin
is little longer windcL The paper
IS OF the same Size bu. smaller type
had tn be- used to say all James had
go say and then It Is said the printer
had a bunch OF copy TO throw In the
waste basket Us overflow
The Rotarians this week on lun.
creon day Wednesday. will entertain
the Rotary bunch from Norman. Din.
nrr will be- served at 1880 at Hotel
Ardmorc and in the afternoon a game
of ball will be played between the
Two clubs and following the game at
TO League Park the visitors will b"
conveyed To Ddrnick Hills County
Club for % game Of golf
Perry Maxwell who founded the
links here also laid out the links In
Norman lie practiccd on the Ard.
more course and by the time he was
ready to make a survey for the Nor
man oousc he knew how to do the
work Anyway Dornick Hills will
De- pleased to show the Norman people
the Arduorc course and to direct them
ever the links.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-08-09
APPROPRIATIONS NOT
NECESSARY FOR ROADS

Washington. August g,-Eugcne
Meyer, director of the war finance cor.
poratlon which would have charge
under the administration plans of the
funding Of some five hundred million
dollars in railroad dcbts to the gov
crnment. explained to the senate inter
state commerce commission today leg
lslation which President Harding re-
comfy urged In a special message 70
congress.
Appropriations to aid the railroads
Mr.. Meyer said. We're neither noccs-
sary nor advisable" as the war fin
ance corporation could intervene. I'm
u temporary wa! and help restore
normal functions Of the railroad In
vostment market"
Private capital has been cut off
largely from railroads, MIR. Meyer said,
because of their reduced earnings"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-08-09
OKLAHOMA RATE CASE
TERMINATED AT NOON

Oklahoma city, August S.--Testi.
mony In the oklahoma freight rate
hearing here is TO b. concluded at
one p. m. and Ernest |. Lewis Of
the Interstate Commerce Commission
before whom the hearing is being
held will take a i.ib train for Wash.
inFton. Il was announced when the
hearing was resumed today.
J. X. Moore and II. L. Bennett.
members OF the state corporation com.
mission. were recalled 10 the stand
today by Commissioner Lewis to ans.
wer questions relative to their pre-.
vious testimony
Commissioner Lewis will place the
evidence and the exhibits before the
Interstate Commerce Commission
which will render decision. The
question Is whether a a5 per cen,
increase granted the carriers within
the state last fall by the state cor
turation commission and rescinded ~
Aprl of this year shall be reinstatel
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-08-09
Democratic Members Ex-
cluded From Participation
of Framing Bill Give
Study to Same
FURTHER REDUCTIONS
ARE ALSO ASSURED
AGREEMENT AS TO TOTAL All
S0LUTELY NECESSARY TO
RUN GOVERNMENT THIS
FISCAL YEAR HAS NOT
BEEN REACHED.

Washington, August 9.-Havirg
agreed TO elimination Of the soda foun-
tain ice cream and so.called luxury
taxes on wearing apparel and fifty
Der cent cut in the levy on sporting
goods. republican members Of the
house ways and means committee
today returned to the job Of revenue
revision resolved to make further re.
ductions in the total tax the Ameri-
can people will b. called upon to pay
this fical year
A fifty per cent cut in the trans.
portation levies, both passenger and
freight. was declared to be prac.
tically a certainty. Those members
who heretofore have urged immediate
repeal of all of these taxes were un.
derstood to be prepared to press their
point with the argument that this
could be done readily if repeal of
the excess profits md higher sur
taxes is delayed, until next January
rs now proposed
The total loss Of revenue involved
io cutting off the transportation
taxes was estimated at 1868 100000 or
less its was claimed, than the loss
that would be entailed this year
through making the repeal Of the
excess profits and higher income sur
taxes retroactive to last January l..
1t also was urged that the cutting off
of the levIes on freight and pas
senger traffic would prove Of real
help to business through savings ir.
freight charges and added expenses
Of travelling statesmen.
Agreement among the majority
members as 10 the total that will be
~ solutely necessary to run the gov.
ornment this fiscal year has not yet
been reached and IL Is said that spc:
cfic tax cuts might await such an
agreement. 1t was the talk Of con
ferences with President Harding to
obtain his advice in the solution of
the major problems before the com
mittee
Having been excluded from parti.
cipation in the framirg Of the bill.
democratic members OF the committee
ere giving independent study OF the
revision question.
Representative Kitchin, the demo
cratic leader. who is detained at his
home in North Carolna by Illness.
has been kept fully informed on tn
public hearings and II is understood
that his counsel will be sought IN
framing any report that the democrats
iray decide to make after they have
studied the republican draft OF the
measure.
Representative Garner OF Texas. the
ranking democrat on the ways ana
means committee In the absence OF
Mr.. Kitchin. came out fatty today
Tor full repeal of the transportation
taxes and the so called nuisance taxes,
including the ten per cent tax on
bottled soft drinks. and against any oI
the new or increased taxes suggest
&c by Secretary Mellon. The Texas
member also is OF the opinion that a
much greater return can be had from
back taxes than the treasury has
estimated He thinks that lnstaed OF
the S235 900 900 given In Mr.. Mel
Ions statement TO the committee
nearly sioOo 600 can be- obtained
from this source this fiscal year
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-08-09
CHURCH ON FIFTH
AVENUE POSSIBLE
RWALART MUSEUM
DISCLOSURES SHOW ST. THOMAS
EPISCOPAL CHURCH A VERT
ABLE TREASURE TROVE OF
UNIQUE SCULPTURE

New York, Aug 9.-St. Thomas
Episcopal church in Fifth Avenue
ioomed today as a possible rival of the
Metropolitan Art Museum in public
interest. following cumulating disclos-
ures that showed the million dollar
Gothic strcture to be veritable treas
ure trove Of unique sculpture and wood
carving.
The first discovery" made by a
newspaper last week revealed the
brides entrance" Then followed the
discovery of a whole row Of avenue
types" little heads about the size of
fist-ccclptured above the main
entrance. These included a monocled
dandy, man with a dissolute nose
and woman heralded as the "divor-
Gee" Today the architects permitted
to become public chart listing some
of the wood carvings that decorate
the interior of the church. One of the
carvings, entitled prohibition" de-
picts BacchuS tumbled from a keg by
woman with a spear. Fallen from
the ouls,retched hand Is a bunch Of
grapes. while behind the woman's
figure is z single lemon emblematic Of
The soft" drink.
Another carving shows the Russian
bear receiving Soviet medicine" from
two monkeys, supposed TO represent
Lenine and Trotzky. A third shows
capital and labor in a death struggle.
Labor is represented by a man in con-
vention working clothes. He grapples
with lean, bewhiskered man in n
high hat, who is backed up against
the Woo!North building. The Wool
worth tower is carved in q slant, as II
about to iail.
Other figures, representative of pro-
gress. depict airplane, automobiles,
locomotives and telephones. Prominent
in this group also are two money
bags bearing the initials y. p. NJ"
The wood carvings also include a
war group, in which heads Of Woodrow
Wilson, King George Of England, King
Albert OF Belgium, Clemenceau. Lloyd
George, General Pershng, Marshal
Foch. Admiral Beatty. Herbert Hoover,
Mai. Gen. Peyton G, March, and many
other war figures.
A salvation army lassie is shown
handing out doughnuts TO doughboys
and poilus and other figures include
"gob and an aviator
r. l.. Mayors, partner OF Bertram
Goodhue, architect Of the church, ex-
planned in making public the charts
that the wood carvings, most Of which
have been done recently, mad the full
approval of Rev. DR.. Ernest VI. Stlres
rector of St. Thomas, The work was
done. he said in accordance with the
tradition of architecture that modern
figures in history problems of the day
and symbols Of the age should receive
recognition in sacred edfice.
The dollar mark above the brides
door and the avenue types above the
main entrance. however. were the
architects little jests, worked In on
his own initiative when the church
was built ten years ago.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-08-09
LEGION EMPLOYS IL
LAWYERS TO PUT OVER
FIGHT ON GERMANS

Lincoln, Neb., Aug 9.--Twelve prom
irent lawyers of Nebraska have been
selected by the Nebraska department
OF the American Legion 20 represent
that organization in the coming legal
battle with the German Evangelical
Lutheran synod cf Missouri. which
has filed suit to annul the Rced-Hor-
val language law The purpose OF the
law Is to make English the basic
language of all schools including pub
lie. private and parochial. Its passage
was sought by the American Legion.
The lawyers who are to direct the
defense OF the language law are MEM
bcrs OF the American Legion. They
held conference recently at Omaha
when they decided TO make formal ap-
pearance in the case which will be ar
gued In the district court OF Platte
County. II will be the first time in
the history OF the state that twelve
lawyers appear on one side In legal
controversy In the district court.
The petition filed by the legion
lawyers states that the Nebraska de-
rartment cf the legion has mem-
bcrship Of 10000 honorably discharged
soldiers. sailors and marines who -
ed their country In the late war. ~
synod claims membership In Mis-
souri, OF $4,000 e.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-08-09
DISBARMENT CASE
HEARINGS START
AUGUST q, JUDGE
.RANEY ST At ES
FOUR CITIES or STATE WITH
FINAL ACTION AT OKLAHO.
MA CITY-PLANS FINISHED.

Oklahoma city. August Clearing
or the mandamus action brought in
the state supreme court to bar Judge
Lucien Il. Wright Of Creek county
from further participation in the
Ketta.Kolvin oil land case will start
August %. it was announced by Judge
Robert VI. Rainey, appointed yesterday
by the supreme court as referee to
take the evidence.
Judge Rainey indicated the hearing
would be conducted in several cities
including Okemah, Tulsa. Okmulgc~.
sapulpa. and Oklahoma City. The
date for commencing the hearing was
decided upon late yesterday at u con.
terence between Judge Rainey and
attorneys for both sides to the suit.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-08-09
Mester and Deputies Chafe
in Corridor of Capitol
While Victim Remains
in His Office
BOND WOULD NOT BE
GIVEN, OFFICER SAYS
SECRETARY TO EXECUTIVE SAYS
HE WILL NOT LEAVE CLOSET
UNTIL AFTER FIVE O'CLOCK
THIS EVENING.

Springfield, Ills, August 9-The
final test of strength in the effort of
Sangamon county officials to serve
Governor Len Small with the war
rants charging him with larceny and
embezzlement of state funds while
state treasurer, was expected today
Sheriff Henry Mestcr of Sangamon
county declared he would repeat his
call of yesterday on the governor
this time with the warrants. unless
advised by Statess Attorney, c. r
Mortimer 10 delay service.
Action for damages against the
sherff's bondsmen may be- taken by
the governor. he indicated Yesterday,
if Sheriff Mester attempts to arrest
hlm under the warrants.
Indications that Governor Small
would be under arrest by noon today
We're given at the court house when
Sheriff Mester, at l1:2j after con.
fcrring with states attorney Morti-
mer. took the warrants accusing the
governor Of embezzlrment and pre-.
pared to go to the state house.
When Sheriff Mester and several
deputies arrived at the state house
they waited on the first floor Of the
building for the governor to come
out.
The sheriff indicated that he would
lot take blank bonds with him to
the governors office.
We have given him a chance TO
come over voluntarily and arrange
his bonds and he has refused" the
sheriff said. we have given him
every courtesy possible and l don {
see why l should take any bonds
over with me-"
Governor Small left the executive
mansion and went to his office about
ten o'clock his customary hour.
Sheriff Mester said he was not
bothered by the governors threat to
sue him and his bondsmen.
The sheriff waited in q corridor on
the ground floor OF the state house
leisurely smoking cigar. Both ho
and the governor We're apparently
Ilaying waiting game. Governor
Small's outposts stationed near the
door. Kept the executive informed OF
the sheriffs movements and mem.
bers Of the governors cabinet and
close political friends paced the sec.
ond floor corridor waiting for the
climax.
Sheriff Mester chattered with state
house acquaintances as he waited
che governor stayed IT. his office and
talked with friends. The lunch hour
passed with neither OF the principals
traking any move.
The situation developed in a siege
The sheriff went To the capitol in
tending 20 serve the warrants on
Governor Small when he left for ths
executive mansion 10, lunch The gov
ornor. however. showed no disposl
ton 10 leave his office and the sit
uatiou took on the appearance ot
war strategy Many state hous,
employees remained IN the corridors
during the lunch hour To watch lie
yelopmcnts
The governors secretary annouuc
r' that the governor was not goinl
out 20 lunch and planned to leay,
the capitol not before five o1ock.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-08-09
STEAM SCHOONER IN
DISTRESS IN PACIFIC

San Francisco. August "a radio
message was picked up from the
steam schooner Multnomah early to
day stating that she was disabled
and drifting helplessly in the Pacific
80 miles northwest Of Blunts light
ship near Eureka. Cal. The Multno.
nah is believed to have lost her
propeller. She is ship Of 800 tons
and is on route to San Francisco from
Seattle with cargo Of lumber. Her
crew numbers between Is and 20.
Latest adviccs said the vessel was
in no danger and that rescue ship
was speeding 10 her assistance, ex'
pecting to arrive within a few hours.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-08-09
telegraph Code T old
Laughter of Wreck
of Fathers Train

THAT is my fathers train" ex-
citedly said Mrs. Della Lytle last
night as she burst into tears.
The woman was sitting by her
husband, Darrell Lytle, telegraph
operator on the Morning Press,
when the ticker conveyed the
news that Missouri Pacific train
No. 3 had gone in the ditch at
Donaldson, small station 40
miles southwest of Little Rock.
Mrs. Lytle has sat many hours
with her husband in his work and
has learned TO read the instrument
and she was listening when the
news of the wreck came over the
wire.
Many nervous moments were
spent until wires were passed
which gave her assurance that her
father was uninjured.
For 23 years my father has
been railroad engineer" said
Mrs. Lytle, and not one time in
those years has he ever had u
wreck. and II made me very nerv-
Gus when l learned that his train
was wrecked and two persons
killed. II was also II consolation
to learn that II was not his
turn to be out with train No. 3
last night. and that it was in the
hands Of others.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-08-09
Church League is
Sued By Janitor
for Picture Bride

Chicago, Aug. 9.-Joseph Beigh-
mann. a janitOr, has started court
proceedings TO gain possession of
Theresa Brinlsler, a "a year old
picture bride" being cared for
by the protcctorate of church
league.
Beighmann asserts he came
from Austria IL years ago when
Miss Brinliler was little girl. A
year ago he wrote his brother i'm
Vienna and asked that a wife be
picked for him he says. His BROTH
er sent him Miss Brinkler's pic
ture, then an epistolary courtship
followed which ended when the girl
came to the United States.
Now Bcighmann says she has
refused TO marry him.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-08-09
Commissioner Pierce With
Surveying Crew Starts
Work Today on Road
Near POOleville
CHAMBER COMMERCE
TO MARK NEW ROAD
oPENlNG OF ROAD ETENDS THE
TRADE TERRITORY; CITIZENS
OF TRAVERSED TOWNS CIV. :.
ING FULL COOPERATION

Marion Pierce of the board OF
county commissioners with sur
veying crew left Tuesday morning
10 begin work on an extension of
the ArdmOre-Robberson highway.
He will take up work near Poole
vile and blaze the way for CO.
foot road through Wild Horse bot
tom.
Upon completion of the road the
highway committee Of the Cham.
ber of Commerce will begin mark
ing the road into the new oil field
the road having already been
marked from here 10 POOleville.
This highway. when completed,
will be about 60 miles long and
connect the oil interests OF Ard
more with those of the new fields
in southeast part of Garvin cOun-
~.
BY pushing this road to rapid
completion the business interests
OF ArdmCre hope to turn the great.
er part of the trade into this ter.
ritory, all things being favorable
to the drilling and producing in.
terests.
The new field is cut off from IL
Healdton, Wynnewood, Dav
md Pauls Valley being the neare,
railroad points. The smaller towr
between Ardmore and the field are c.
operating with the engineers and thos
directly interested in the constructio
Of the highway in order TO insui
is hurried completion.
Business interests of Carter count
regard the opening Of this road as
greater extension Of trade territor
and are preparing to follow up II
engineers with publicity and prop,
randa fi.voSble 10 Ardrnore. 1t is b
lieved that the "oil atmosphere a
ready prevalent in Ardmore, will
the greatest drawing card, in add
ton 10 ample hotel and railway {
well as travelling facilities.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-08-09
NOTED MEXICAN
EDITOR Is KILLED

Mexico City. Aug, 9.--Gen. Jose Ales-
sio Robles. brother OF the Mexican min,
lister 10 Spain and the edltor Of the
newspaper III Democrata, was shot
and killed last evening as he drove in
his automobile. through one of the
rain streets in the residence section
or the city.
Following the tragedy. Gen. Jacinto
Trevino. director OF the federal com-
mission revising army service records,
placed himself at the disposition of the
police and Is said to have been held
upon his own rccogniyance. The
cause fer the attack upon General
Roblcs Is declared to have been a
declaration purportlng to have been
made by him published yesterday
morning in which he criticised General
Trevino.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-08-09
New York Dancing
Has Been Improved
By Street Affairs

New York, Aug. 9.-The inter-
national dancing masters associa-
ton. opening its annual conven-
tion yesterday was told by
Philadelphia police woman, Miss
Marguerite Walz, that block par
ties with thousands fox &otting
in the streets had improved the
reputation OF dancing i'm her city.
Two new steps were introduced
before the convention. the tango
trot and the Porto POvich, both
heralded as aesthetic and eIevating
The convention planned country
wide effort to offset artistic
steps, "the poison generated during
the last few years by improper
dancing"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-08-09
HIGliwNyMEN IN OKLAHOMA
CITY HOLD Up SIN ALTOS

Oklahoma city. August e.-liiehway-
men In high powered automobile last
night held up six motor cars on coun.
try roads near Oklahoma city. ac.
cCr,iing to reports made to the police,
The robbers are believed by the au-
thorities to be- the same men who
about ten days ago. caused the city
and county peace officers to combine
forces TO protect motorists on the read
b. a suburban park four miles from
the city. At that time. a number Of
motorists wsfe held up and robbed
but later ,hs robberiss subsidized.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-08-09
DES MONIES SUFFERS
DURING BUS-CAR WAR

ncs Moi1cs. Iowa. August 9.-with
bus men In keen competition to i'm
prove their service and make IL pes.
muncnt. business leaders here expected
un answer today or tomorrow To- theft
cifcr To the street car company ~.
tvivcrs to have trolley service resumed
With seven cent fare and no bus
competition. There ere % buses ln
operation. \ few were charging ten
cents and complaints were made to
the police.
\ Join, meeting Of Improvement
associations last night voted against
issuing street car franchise whiCn
permits a far higher than five cents
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-08-09
RAIN OVER STATE
HALTS HEAT WAVE

Oklahoma City, August 9.-Many
sections OF Oklahoma received light
10 heavy rains during last night and
carly today 1t was announced at the
weather bureau here today. The rain.
fall was spotted, being heaviest in
the east-central portion with no rain
In the panhandle section and little
in the southwest Possibility OF more
rainfall in the eastern part was clear.
Ing weather over the remainder OF tho
state was seen by bureau officials.
Chandler reported the heaviest rain.
fan up to d m, today, Les inches.
Other reports were:
Ada l.l2; okemha. los; Muskogee.
&c; Chickasha 20; Alva. and Pauls
Valley, GO and Oklahoma City 80.
Muskogee. Okla. August 9.--Eastern
Oklahoma was this morning the reel.
pient OF a generous rain that brought
relief to growing crops and effectively
broke an unprecedented heat wave.
Officials Of the Missouri. Kansas
and Gulf report rain from Muskogec
10 Denison. Texas. Frisco officials
report rain from okmulgee. Okla, 10
Fayetteville. Ark. and from Monett.
Mo, TO Paris. Texas. Missouri. Kan.
sas and Texas railway officers said
d; was raining along their line from
Parsons, Kansas TO Denison. Texas.
a good rain Is afro reported along
the Midland Valley ro1d.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-08-09
LEAGUE COMMITTEE ON
DISARMAMENT TO GIVE
DATA AT CONFERENCE

New York. August s.-ln connection
with the disarmament conference call.
Cd by President Harding steps have
been taken to acuuaint the state de-
rartment with conclusions reached by
the reduction OF armaments commis
sion of the league of nations.
This announcement Is made by tht
league OF nations news bureau, which
add that. because of refusal of the
depau ument to recognize formal com.
munications from the league. the steps
had to bs taken unofficially.