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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-04-12

business section OF the city. Mrs.
Biles of Ada, former resident of
| Ardmore, was visitor with the So
ciety yesterday.
In the midst of the festivities Of
the week, Mrs. Arthur Walcott has
not forgotten the Confederate Vet
Grams in the home here She was
arranging this morning to get the
artillery band to go out there for a
coniert, and she is also making an
effort to get the Veterans here TO
witness The Birth of Nation" She
does not know where the funds are
to come from for the tickets, but she
thinks some way will be provided.
The entertainment that will be
given by the Fourth Ward Mothers
Club on Friday evening will be Of
unusual interest, as there will be sey-
eral good speakers along civic lines.
Also magic lantern slides, showing
the fly and its menace to health, will
be exhibited. \ large attendance is
desired.
The Carter Avenue Missionary So
ciety met with Mrs w. f. Freeman
yesterday and had a large attendance
and good meeting. After the bust
ness hour was the social feature,
with refreshments. The next meet
ing will be with Mrs. Ed Holder
The Baptist young ladies met yes
terday at the home of W. w. Gillian
with Mrs. l.. A. Henderson as leader
and had a very interesting session.
The next meeting will be two weeks
hence, with Mrs. II. Scott, 6O3 c
street, northwest.
Mrs. S. c. Riggan of Wynnewood
and Miss Mary Howe of Caddo Okla,
returned to their homes yesterday,
after spending the week as guests
of Mrs. W. NJ. Wade, 347 f street
northwest.
Mrs. W. A. Easley will be hostess
on Thursday and Friday of this week
L,,orinr bar gfctars Mrs n cole
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Can't Be Done.

It's me" is an "idiom, says Har-
ward professor, and is allowable. 1t
is allowable largely for the reason
that we haven't standing army enough
to suppress it.-Houston Post.
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Better Indication.

A man is known by the company he
keeps, although the best indication
Of character is the company he
avoids. .r.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-04-12

Do not miss the Fifth Field Artil.
lery Band Concert at the high school
auditorium Wednesday evening, at 8
o'clock. az
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-03-31
Three Years of Democracy.

Mr.. Wilson has been president for
three of the most difficult years in the
history of the country since the close
OF General W~ashington's administra-
ton, and excepting only the periods Of
the second war with England and the
Civil war. Since the government was
established and ~precedents set bv the
first president, and excepting onlv the
more serious war periods we have
been through. no president has had
difficulties even remotely approaching
those with which Mr.. Wilson has had
to contend.
With due regard for the unprece-
denied difficulties and embarrassments
OF, the time, President Wilson and the
Democratic party have DISCHARGED
their respective duties with a hipb
intelligence, a broad comprehension.
and an eye single to the interests and
the duties of the American nation
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Good Democratic Record.

The tariff is only a part of the Ur
derwood revenue law. In reducing
axes on consumption, of which the
consumer pays far more than the gov
eminent receives, and substituting a
tax on incomes, which falls on the
wellto-do in proportion to their ability
to contribute to the support of the gov
eminent, the Democratic party has
been true to its promises, faithful to
its traditions and guided by the best
opinion of expert economists. The law
provided not only a sufficient revenue
but a surplus that covered the years
costs of the Panama canal, until the
great war disarranged our industries
and interfered radically with our i'm
ports.
The federal reserve banking system
now has few critics. Financial opin-
ion is very generally warm in it's CON.
mendation of a reform of the currency.
the need of which was repeatedly
pressed by the business world upon
Republican congresses, but always
pressed in vain. The Republicans
evaded their duty; the Democrats did
it, and did it uncommonly well.
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Sporting

Announcement has been made that
the Columbia crew will proceed to
their headquarters at Poughkeepsie
on May 81. This is the earliest date
that any Columbia crew has ever been
allowed to begin active training at
Poughkeepsie for the annual regatta.
Freddie" Welsh, the lightweight
champion, has been matched to meet
Charley White in a twenty round
bout the middle of April at Kansas
City, in which a referees decision will
be rendered.
Charlie Brickley, the famous Har-
ward football player, will coach the
Boston College eleven next fall. Brick
ley has signed a one year contract.
Fulton is angling for a twenty
round bout with Willard in New Or
leans, and he may get it. If Fulton
were to meet Willard he would be
a better physical match for Jess than
was Moran. Fred weighs about 220
pounds and stands 6 feet AZ inches
in his stocking feet.
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Washington

Senator Shepard introduced a bill
to authorize the secretary of war to
supply tents for 5000 residents of
Paris, Texas, requiring shelter because
of the fire there.
Action will be taken at once on
the Sussex case if it is shown that
a German submarine attacked the YES
sci without warning.
Thomas Taggart, recently appointed
United States Senator from Indiana
to fill the unexpired term of the late
Senator Shively, took the oath of Of
fee in Washington.
A call has been issued from Wash
ington to the organized labor of all
countries to send a delegate to a
Labor's World Peace Congress, to be
held simultaneously with the peace
congress that the nations now at wal
will ultimately hold, in the same city.
Bitter resentment in Administration
circles over what is regarded as an
organized effort to embroil the United
States in war with Mexico fared up
on all sides in Washington.
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Foreign

The Kaiser's son, August, is going
to Belgium to assist General o Bis
sing, the Military Governor, whom, it
is believed, he will eventually re-
place.
Sir Samuel Evans, president of the
British Prize Court, awarded the Off
GERS and crew of the British auxiliary
cruiser Carmania $4,000 as prize
bounty for the sinking of the German
cruiser Cap Trafalgar,
Maximum prices for butter have
been increased in Berlin.
Two new superdreadnaughts, the
France and Paris, have been added
to the French feet.
The Japanese Foreign Office denied
rumors of a revision in the Anglo
japanese alliance.
Pope Benedict has appointed Car
dinal Serafni. perfect of the Congre-
cation of the Propaganda, succeeding
Cardinal Gotti. who died last week.
A report from Rome states Chile has
threatened to seiZe German and Aus
trian ships unless Germany restores to
her S12, 900 900 deposited in Germany
before war for conversion of currency.
The Holland-America liner Rotter.
dam will be withdrawn from service.
No reason for the withdrawal is given
by the steamship company.
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VIOLENT RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE

Rome-The continued German gains
around Verdun have aroused dissatis-
faction in France, not only with the
Var Office but with Gen. Joffre, ac-
cording to advices from Swiss sources.
Paris newspapers are said to have
been warned by the authorities
against criticising Joffre.
The French War Office reported a
lull in infantry fighting in the Yer
dun region. Near Hill 285 the French
blew up a mine and occupied the
crater.
In the Woevre district there were
outbursts of artillery fire in the Sec
tors of M%oulainville and Eparges, both
sides taking part.
Unremitting in their sustained adj
vance to force evacuation by the
French of positions northwest of Yer
dun dominating tine Paris-Verdun rail
way, the Germans captured two more
trenches in the Haucourt region, the
Berlin War Office announced.
The Kaiser's troops pressed forward
south of Malancourt against the south
western side of the French salient.
This advance further imperils the pro.
jecting French positions at Malancourt
and Bethincourt.
Violent Russian attacks continued
southeast of Riga and in the region
of Dvinsk. All the Russian assaults,
however, broke down under German
fire, Berlin reported.
Petrograd, on the other hand, de-
clared the Cars armies to be steadi-
ly advancing, stating that savage bat
ties were fought at Jacobstadt, 81
miles southeast of Riga, where the
Russians, using liquid fire and gas
bombs, are b~attering in the German
salient.
The success of this offensive would
remove the German threat against
Riga and Dvinsk, and handicap Won
H%indenburg in any aggressive cam
paign he might undertake On the Rus
sian front.
The defeat of a British force which
attacked a Turkish position on the
right bank of the Tigris River, near
Felahie, is announced by Constants
nople. The report also says that
Turkish airmen have again dropped
bombs on Kut-el-Amara, where a
British force is under siege.
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WILL KEEP CONTR0E
President Wilson and Democratic
House Sure.
Representative Doremus, Fresh From
Travel Throughout the Country,
Tells of the Sentiment
of the People.

Prediction that President Wilson
and a Democratic house will be re-
turned by the people at the November
elections is made in a statement made
public by Representative F. E. Dore-
mus, chairman of the Democratic con-
g~ressional compaign committee. A
mingling among the people of the
country can do nothing but develop
this opinion, he says. Following is the
statement:
I'm certain inspired quarters sedu-
lous attempts are being made to Gre
ate the impression hat despite the
tremendous popularity of President
Wilson the Democrats entertain slight
hope of winning the next congress.
One indication of this propaganda is
shown by the wide publicity that has
attended the announcements of Rep
r~esentatives Page of North Carolina.
Eagle of Texas and Sherwood of Ohio
that they will not seek reelection.
"Of course the North Carolina and
Texas districts are sure to send Dem
ocrats to the S~ixty-fifth congress, and
the same may be said of the Toledo
district. 1t can safely be predicted
that Representative Sherwood will be
succeeded by a Democrat. In fact, I
consider the election of a Democrat
in the Toledo district as one of the
certainties of the campaign.
If any man doubts what the SEN
timent of this country is today, he
should go out and mingle with the
people, as / did for two weeks. No
matter in what section of the country
he may go, he will come home firm
In the conviction that President Will
son and a Democratic ngr in
sympathy with him will be overwhelm-
ingly elected in November.
Il know of but one way to c
rately determine public sentiment, and
that is to talk face to face with those
who do the voting. Any man who
cares to employ that test will be con-
vlnced of the truth of what | say.
What impresses me more than any
thing else is the assurance that has
come to me recently of support from
Republican and independent sources.
Men who have never voted the Dem
ocratic ticket before frankly avow
their intention to vote and work for
a congress in sympathy with Mr.. Will
son pecause they realize that the pres.
ldent's hands would be tied if a Re-
publican congress were elected.
In 1914 for the first time in many
years the party in power retained
its control of congress following a gen
eral revision of the tariff. All the in
d1cations are that this majority will be
substantially increased this yearAand
notable gains made in the entire graup
of doubtful districts"
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Daily Cuttings That Tell the
Big Events of the World.
EUROPE's GREAT CONFLICT
land and Sea Fights in the Terrible
Conflagration-crop Reports From
Agricultural Regions-News Of
the Industrial Centers.
War Bulletins

Attacking after mining operation on
a large scale, the British south OF
Ypres have driven in the German sa
lent at st. Eloi, capturing two lines
of trenches on a front of 600 yards.
The Germans defending these tren.
ches lost heavily.
A fragment of bronze found aboard
the Sussex has been declared by
French officials to be part of a tor
pedo head.
An intense German bombardment is
reported on both banks of the Mouse
north of Verdun, but the infantry
fighting in this region has not been
renewed.
Despite tremendous expenditure by
the Russians of men and munitions,
Berlin claims that attacks on the
northern sector have been stopped.
On the Greek frontier the fighting
is developing into a general attack by
the Germans and Bulgarians on the
Allies line, and heavy artillery is in
action.
There are further indications that
the relations between Germany and
the United States are likely to reach
a critical stage as a result of the
torpedoing of the British steamer
Englishman, with four Americans
missing and the channel liner Sussex,
with 5 Americans on board.
The most important conference of
the Allies since the outbreak of the
wal was held at Paris under the
Presidency of Premier BRAND. The
Premiers of Great Britain, Italy Bel
GUM and Serbia participated.
All along the Russian front from
the region of Freidrichstadt to the
district around Wilma the Russians
and Germans are at grips in a battle
in which the Cars forces were press
ing an offensive and making use of
the bayonet,
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General

Fire at the plant of the Pennsyl-
vania Salt Manufacturing Co., at
Wyandotte, a Detroit suburb, caused
$500, 900 damage.
Pleas for money to help sufferers
from last weeks s., 0O0, 900 fire in
Augusta, Ga, were made in all the
churches there.
Representative Copley of Illinois in
troduced a resolution for an investi-
cation of the print paper situation by
the Department of Commerce.
Fire broke out in the cargo of the
British steamer City of Naples as she
was being unloaded at Boston. Dam
age of 5000, 900 was caused.
The new superdreadnaught Nevada
arrived at the Brooklyn Navy Yard
to receive special equipment.
american citizenship was denied to
Takao Czawa, a Japanese, in a test
case at Honolulu, the court ruling
that Japanese are Mongolians.
Henry ~Biederbrick, said to be the
last surviving member of the Greedy
Arctic expedition of 1881-1884. died at
his nome IN Jersey City, aged SO.
The second wolf drive of the season
was held near Carthage, Mo. One
wolf and $50 rabbits were killed by
the $50 persons participating in the
drive.
The steamship Republic, bought
from the French government by a
San Francisco syndicate for $29, 900
and admitted to American registry
while sunk in Tahiti Harbor, where
it was sunk by a German battleship.
arrived at San Francisco under its
own steam.
The P~ottsville, (Pa.) Board oil
School Directors ruled that neither
''fat" nor Glossy" candidates for posi-
tions as teachers in the city's schools
are wanted.
The Army Hospital Corps at Fort
H G. Wright, N. Y, left for Fort San
Houston, Tex.
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FRENCH CHECK VERDUN DRIVE
WAVES OF men DRIVEN BACK
BRITISH TAKE GERMAN TRENCHES
Front of 600 Yards--Russians Make New Gains
Capture Two Lines of the Teuton Defenses
CzAR's FORCES HAMMER POSITIONS ON 75-MILE LINE

London.-The British infantry in a
series of determined charges captured
the first and second trenches of the
Germans on a front of 500 yards in the
region of st. Eloi, just south of Ypres.
Berlin admits that the Germans
were forced to yield ground and that
Casualties were caused among the
companies occupying the position"
The British onslaught vas preceded
by the explosion of a big mine and
the gain was won in encounters in
which the fighting was at close range.
The Germans have increased the in
tersity of their bombardment of Beth
%encourt, LIE Mort Homme dead
Mans HID and Cumieres, west of
the Mouse, and are maintaining with
greater volume their Smelling of the
French positions in the region OF
Vaux and Dauaumont.
These positions for several weeks
have blocked the attempts of the Ger
mans to gain ground northeast of
Verdun.
Desperate fighting continues to
mark the operations in the Russian
arena. The Cars armies have cap
tured two German trenches to the
northwest of Postavy. The Teutons
are resisting obstinately the Russian
attacks between Dvinsk and Wilma and
have moved their troops about to mass
their strength at the points where
the Muscovites are pressing them the
hardest. Twenty bombs have been
dropped by German airmen on the
town of Dvinsk.
In the Black Sea littoral the Rus
slams are still making progress against
the Turks.
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MEXICAN

General Funston officially announced
that Villa did not break through the
lines of the American forces but
slipped by the C-arranzistas.
OF the eight aeroplanes SEN into
Mexico, two have been destroyed and
four are broken, leaving only two
that will fly.
General Pershing is tightening the
strings on correspondence from the
front. Several correspondents who
left with the flying column, have been
fired OUT and are beating it back
to Ell Paso.
Elias Miers, the Villa lieutenant
shot through the head during the
raid on Columbus, died at Deming,
N. M, of his wounds.
The latest advices stated that Villa
succeeded in entering San Geronimo
Canyon, pursued closely by the Am
erican troops of Colonel G.. A. Dodd
and the C~arranza forces of Colonel
Cano.
Wireless reports from co%rrespon-
dents at Casas Grandes say Villas
trail is marked by wounded men and
horses. He has abandoned eighteen
wounded men and is filling his ranks
by impressing youths into her service.
Three Americans, two men and one
man, are reported killed, presumably
by Mexicans, near GibSon's line ranch,
on the Mexico-New Mexico boundary
line, eight miles west of Columbus, N.
M
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-03-31
Democrats May Feel Safe.

1t is at four points, two of finance
and two OF foreign affairs, that the Re-
publicans feel confident of their abilit v
to destroy the credit of the Democratic
administration and party. But their
confidence is in vain. Thew can do
nounce the president with great flu
ency; they cannot suggest anything
that they could have done better. ex-
cept in the single matter of the tariff
where the issue is the constant one
between the two parties. Republican
hope cannot be great.
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Six dead are reported from the
flooded districts of Wisconsin.
Judge w. S. Anderson granted a
motion to quash the indictments re-
Gently returned at Youngstown, Ohio,
against five steel companies, charging
them with conspiring to fix the price
of labor and steel products.
Prices on various brands of crude
oil were advanced 10 cents a barrel
by the Texas Co.
Fifty-four additional motor trucks
for use in Mexico have been ordered
sent to the border.
Thomas J.. Pence, secretary of the
Democratic national committee, died
of pneumonia in Washington.
John B. Elan, aged 70. one of the
most widely known lawyers of In
diana, died at his home in ~Indianapo-
lis.
After two months in Washington,
Major General Goethals sailed from
New York for Panama on the Steamer
Pastores.
The Eastern Manufacturing Co., of
Bangor. Me-, sold seven of its feet
Of understanding schooners.
The navy transport Hancock, en-
route from Philadelphia to Key West,
was ordered by wireless to proceed
to Galveston and remain there in
definitely.
Eight members of the family of
Alexander Edfemond, a farmer living
near Davis, Okla, were killed when
their home was demolished by a tor
nado.
The 5000 silk workers in Pater-
son, N. j., have won their demand
for a nine-hour day. They will start
OF the new schedule on April 3.
DR.. Arthur Warren Waite confessed
to District Attorney Swami in New
York City that he had bought poison
which killed John E. Peck, his mill
ionaire father-in-law He delivered
the poison to the aged millionaire so
Peck might commit suicide, he said.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-03-31

London.-Another determined at.
tempt by the Germans to break
through the French lines northwest of
Verdun has resulted in failure, and
with heavy losses to the Germans.
After days of intense artillery prepa-
ration for another effort to lessen the
six miles intervening between them
and the Paris-Verdun Railway and the
nine miles still between them and
Verdun, the Germans launched a great
infantry attack on the Haucourt-Beth-
incourt sector. In successive waves
the Germans were thrown into the
fray, but all of their attempts were
put down by the curtain of fire of
the French guns and volleys of the
French infantry.
In a new drive on the eastern front
the Russians have attacked the Ger
mans on a line more than seventy-ive
miles long, and are pushing their Of
fensive with great determination.
Berlin reports that the Cars losses
have been not less than $4,000 men.
and that the German positions have
been held at all points. Petrograd dis
patches, on the other hand, say the
Russians are making steady progress.
The unity and solidarity of the
Entente Allies and the decision ito
continue the struggle to victory for
the common cause" were reafirmed
in resolutions passed by he Confer
ence of the Allies in Paris.
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PITH OF n
WAR NEWS


Instructions were cabled to Ambas.
sador Gerard by the American Stats
Department to make "immediate in.
quiries" at the Foreign Office in
Berlin as to whether a German sub.
marine, in either or both instances.
~torpedoed the English Channel boat
Sussex and the British transport
EngIishman.
A German air squadron has dropped
bombs on the harbor works at Sa-
loniki and the Entente Allied en-
campment north of Saloniki.
A German torepdo boat destroyer was
rammed and sunk by the British
light cruiser Cleopatra.
Political and military heads of seven
Entente Allies held in Paris the
most important conference since the
outbreak of the war.
In retaliation for the attack on Ger
mar camps north of the Greek fron-
tier by a squadron of French aera-
planes. v aviators bombarded
Saioniki.
In the operations between the Italians
and Austrians in the Gorilla region
the Austrians have captured an
Italian position IN Podgora Heights.
West Prussia regiments retook artiI-
lery observation posts lost by the
Germans near Narocz Lake.
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BRITISH MAKE AIR RAID.

London.-England has given her
hrst effective answer to German air
raids. A squadron of five seaplanes,
conveyed by light cruisers and de-
stroyers, crossed the North Sea and
visited the home of the German planes
which have frequently visited the Eng
lish coast of late.
They attacked the German airship
sheds in Schleswig east of the island
of Sylt. They were met, however.
by an effective anti-aircraft defense,
while their conveys were engaged by
German armed trawlers outside the
harbor of Sylt. Only two of the Brit
ish planes returned; the three others,
including a battle plane, were brought
down, according to an official state
ment issued at Berlin.
Stormy weather prevailed, and in
the course of a naval engagement the
British destroyer Medusa collided
with the British destroyer Laverock.
The Medusa is believed to have been
lost. The Germans, on their part,
lost two armed trawlers, the Brann-
scweig and the Otto Rudolf.
The distance from the island of
Sylt to Kiel is about IS miles; to
Cuxhaven about 80 miles; to Bremen
haven about 10 miles, and to Will
helmshaven about 100 miles.
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LOST II ON MINNEAPOLIS.
Rest of T~Hrpedoed British Ships
Crew Safe at Malta.

London.-It is announced that II
persons were killed when the British
steamship Minneapolis, formerly in
the New York-London service, was
sunk last week in the Mediterranean
by an enemy torpedo.
A Lloyd's dispatch from Malta, dat
ed March "a, says: "The crew of the
Minneapolis, which was torpedoed,
have arrived here, with the exception
OF II men, who were lost"
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HIS LOAN COUPONS WAR GIFT.

American Donates $14.o6 Interest to
Allies Charities.
Paris.-The Temps received 70
francs rs centimes in coupons, from
bonds of the Anglo-French loan. The
money came from IAN American citi-
zen," who wrote anonymously, re-
questing that the amount should either
be paid into the French Treasury or
disposed of in any other manner ITO
serve civilization, so nobly defended
by the Allies" The Temps paid the
sum into the Servian relief fund.