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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-01
Wretched Substitutes
for Food in Germany
Cause Much Terror

Amsterdam JAN 1t Correspondence of The Associated
Press The almost complete lack of nourshment in many
the food Substitutes being sold in Germany is arOusng
storm of warning from German scientists who declare that
supervision of the whole substitute food traffic is
immediate necessity Professor Juckenack of the University
of Berlin writing in the VOssche Zeiung, says
W useless longer hide the truth Unless the gov
ement nteVenes to put control the flood of sub
stute foods with which overwhelmed the end of the
will also the end of third of Gemanys population
Moreover the remaining wo-hrds will be enfeebed from
manuron that they will be unable perform the immense
tasks of recuperation and restoration
The devil alone knows what the ingredients of thou
sands of these Wretched substitutes that already do duty for
butter and eggs oil and milk flour and spirits meat and BROTH
coffee and sugar tobacco and fish and sausage cheese and
caviar and without end.
The latest products of the ingenious subsutemongers
really too terrible preparations of crude kerosene
being largely sold frying OIL and 800 of serious Illness
together with deaths have been traced to its in Berlin
preparation called goose dripping is prepared from dogs
fat egg substitutes from mixture of chalk and baking powder
caviar from fish scales and bread from straw What people
matter how patriotic can hold out on such fare?"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-01
MANY THOUSANDS OF WORKMEV
IN MANY CITIES STILL ARE OUT
REPRESSIVE MEASURES IN BERLIN TAKE THE FORM
OF SEIZURE OF TRADE UNION BUILDING AND AR
REST OF LABOR LEADERS-UNION MEMBERS
DRAINED OF MONEY BY ENFORCED LOANS.
(By The Associated Press. }

While many thousands of workers still strike in
Berlin and other parts of Germany the strike movement
longer to be the of extension the capital
In the chief industrial ceners, outside of Berlin, support
also reported lacking in sufficient degree carry the
movement along.
Represve in Berlin have taken the form of seiz
of the trade union building by the police and the arrest Of
several of the labor leaders
Declaration of martial law in the great ports of Hamburg
and Bremen and lack of definite concerning the prog
of the strike indicate the possibility that the authorities
have taken stern to deal with the discontented
wOrkmen.
Beated reports, however, show that the movement has
spread widely since Monday.
Some correspondents in Holland believe that the situation
has grown worse owing to efforts Of the German government
to minimize the importance of the strike While report
from Copenhagen says that all the socialist leaders have been
summoned to Berlin to discuss political QuestOns advices
received Amsterdam the effect that Chancellor Won
Hertng following the example of Minister Of the Interior
Waraff refused to strikers delegation.
In Berlin there has been fatal clash between strikers
and police and minor disturbances reported to have
Cured in other sections well the suburbs of the cap
al.
The Berlin press says the movement Berlin has reached
a climax and that it is losing its effectiveness
Reports received Amsterdam from other industrial sec
tons say that the strike is getting full support More
workers have been reported strike IN Berlin
There are reports of strikes in the Dormund mining
district and in Dantzg and Munich while is said that the
strikers Nuremberg Bavaria have returned to their tasks
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-01
POLES BEGIN WAR
ON THE BOLSHEVIKI
SOCALLED POLISH LEGION IN
RUSSIAN TERRITORY TO AID
GERMAN CAUSE.

London, Feb. News has reached
Kiev from Minsk that the Polish legion
has declared war against the bolshev.
Xxi, Reuter- dispatch from Petrograd
says.
Both the German and Russian armies
contain divisions made up of Poles The
Germans had organized a Polish legion
but it was disbanded several months
ago to make way for a Polish national
army. Minsk is behind the Russian
lines, which would indicate that the
Poles in the Russian army have re
volted against the bolsheviI.
Report Of the Polish legion's action
also is forwarded by the Petrograd cor
respondent of the Exchange Telegraph
Company, who says that according tc
a telegram from Ninsk, the bolshevik
have attacked a Polish division under
General Ottapovitch, Heavy fighting
occurred
The Polish commander-in-chief tele
graphed the commander on the western
front that state Of war existed be
tween the Polish army and the Dol
sheviki.
In the ancient Tartar capital o.
Bakhtchisarai, representatives Of tn,
Crimean Tartars have held a constitu
ent assembly and issued a declaration
of the establishment Of an autonomous
Crimean republic. The entire popula
ton OF the Crimea and the soldiers ant
workmen's deputies are said to have ac
knowledged the new republic
An epidemic of disease has broken ou
in Crimea.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-01
WILSON 5 a PEACE
UNITS IN SENATE
SENATOR OWEN PROPOSES UPPER
BODY INDORSE PRESIDENTS
RECENT PROPOSALS.

Washington, Feb 1.-Senator Robert
l.. owen of Oklahoma yesterday intro
iuced i'm the senate a peace resolution
which declared that the fourteen points
Of President Wilson's address of Janu-
lry should constitute the peace aims
f the United States.
When Senator Borah of Idaho intro
luced another to record the senate's
position, Chairman Stone of the foreign
relations committee announced that the
committee soon would meet to agree on
a composite draft of the senate's views.
Speaking in support Of his resolution,
Senator Owen declared that congress
should, on its own motion, declare the
opinion of the American people in re.
gard to this war and support the presi.
lent in his message Of Jan. and state
the conditions upon which world peace
could be established.
Senator Borah's resolution denounces
secret diplomacy" and provides that
he national, political and economic rights
f small and subject nationalities be
revered and conceded" that the "com.
'ng peace is not TO be illusory, and
must be inspired by justice alone" that
complete restitution be made for all
riyate property destroyed and full rep
ration for all damage done"
The resolution also provides that the
nations that have declared themselves
hampions Of world democracy and of
he liberties Of small and subject ma
lions, make their position clear to the
vorld by pledging themselves to favor
he admission Of separate deliberative
representatives Of all nationalities into
he peace conference"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-01
HALF DOZEN U-BOATS
IN FLOCK NABBED
BY FRENCH WARCRAFT I

St Louis, Feb. Rear Admiral Rob
ert E. Peary, chairman Of the aerial
coast patrol commission. told in an ad-
dress here how five German submarines
IN a flock We're captured in December.
These are the submarines whose cap
,ure recently was announced by Pre-
mier Lloyd George in the house Of com
mons.
Telling Of the capture, Rear Ad-
miral Peary said:
THE U-53 was sighted by French
.eaplane and wae Don caplIrel by a
destroyer The F"en-h crew was able
tC reach the wire ess apparatus on the
submarine before the Germans could
dismantle it and they also seized the
code.
"They found that the U-boat was the
flagship Of a squadron of five or six
other submarines. A French crew was
placed on the submarine and the next
day the boat was taken out and began
signalling for a rendezvous of all the
G-boats When they arrived at point
designated in the wireless message,
French cruisers surrounded them. The
submarines tried to escape by creating
q smoke screen, but seaplanes were
.ver them and had their guns trained
u the boats"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-01
.FINNS OVERPOWER
RUSS RED GUARD
LITTLE NEW REPUBLIC BEGINS
TO GET UPPER HAND IN
WAR FOR FREEDOM.

London Feb 1.-The situation in
Finland is more reassuring according
to the latest reports received at the
Finnish legation at Stockholm ana
transmitted by the correspondent of the
London Times. Red Guards have been
lisarmed or are willingly surrenderine
their arms, all over the country. The
revolutionists still hold Helsingfors, the
capital.
A Helsingfors dispatch Of Wednes
days date says the diet and the leglu
mate government are prevented by the
revoluuonists from exercising their
luties.
Suspension of all general activities OF
religious bodies until the restoration OF
order has been announced by the cen
trail association of officials, it is stated
Physicians are directed to continue then
work, and it is promised that railway
service and food supply will be main
tanned under special arrangement.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-01
PEACE POWWOW
GRINDS AGAIN

Petrograd, Feb. In reporting the
reopening Of the negotiations at Brest
L-tovsk, the semi-offcial Russian news
agency says that the presence in the
conference of Count Podewils- Durnitz
is due to the opposition of the Bavarian
press toward the Berlin government.
Foreign Minister Trotzky, having an.
nounced the arrival of the Kharkov
delegation of Ukrainians, the Germans
decided to reserve their attitude toward
it until the arrival Of representatives
of the Kiev Ukrainian rada.
DR.. Won Kuehlmann, German foreign
secretary, proposed resumption of work
of the political commission which deals
with territorial questions. The Rus.
SLAMS agreed
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-01
LAWYER AIDED
KEET KIDNAP| ING
THIS N ALLEGED LATEST CON
FESSION OF PIERSOL ON EVE
OF ENTERING PRISON.

Marshfeld, Mo- Feb. Claude Pier.
SOL convicted Of kidnapping Baby LLOYD
keet' who probably will be removed
from Jail here today to the state peni,
tentiary to begin his 35.year sentence.
made new confession last night ac.
cording to Sheriff MaclIey Of Webster
county.
Piersol, according to the sheriff, de-
clared that a Springfield attorney ad-
vised with the kidnapping gang. even
drawing up the contract" specifying
the amount each was to receive when
the ransom money was paid by ]. Ho,.
land keet, the baby's father.
The confession is said to name twelve
persons, who Piersol says were actively
implicated in the kidnapping.
Goes Into Detail.
The alleged confession goes into great
detail and many of his statements are
at variance with those Of his first con.
tession Piersol relates that he was not
the leader Of the kidnapers. clinging to
his version that the mysterious "Riley"
directed the movements Of the gang.
The confession describes minutely the
movements of the gang on the Keet
premises the night the baby was stolen.
Piersol says Make Adams was the one
who climbed through the window and
passed Baby Lloyd out to "Riley." In
stead Of being taken to a deserted
shack ten miles from Springfield, as
told in his first confession, Piersol says
the baby was taken directly to the home
of Taylor Adams, and that Mrs. Adams
cared for it while it was kept there.
Hurry Baby Away.
The baby was taken to the Crenshaw
home six days after the kidnapping
Piersol says when it was reported that
the authorities contemplated a search
of every house in Springfield.
Piersol says Mrs. Adams never went
out to the Crenshaw place, and that
the baby died because there was no
one at the rendezvous to give the child
proper attention, He says Riley" ana
three other members of the gang pu.
the body in the cstern.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-01
Ice Pack Passing Memphis.

Memphis, Tenn, Feb. 1.-The gorge
of ice from the jam at Richardson's
landing, fifty miles above this city,
which began passing here early this
morning, was moving down the Missis-
sippi River rapidly today with craft OF
all descriptions hugging the banks in
sheltered anchorages.
The river here rose approximately
three feet over night to a stage of 14.5
feet at o'clock this morning.
Dispatches from up-river points this
morning reported no additional damage
as a result of the breaking up Of the
Richardson gorge.
Reports from Osceola, Ark, indicated
that the ice pack which extends from
that point to Barfield, a distance of
about twenty miles, still was holding.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-01
ANOTHER SHOT
FIRED At LENINE

London, Feb. Another unsuccess.
full attempt on the life of Premier Le-
nine was made last night, according to
he Petrograd correspondent of The
Daily News. A young man in a stu
ents uniform entered the Smolny In
tltute the bolshevist headquarters, and
red shot from a revolver at the pre-.
nier without hitting him.
Red Guards Stationed outside the pre-.
nier's room were arrested and will be
charged with neglect of duty.
An attempt was made January 16 to
ssassinate Premier Lenine With a
lumber of friends the premier was going
o the Smolny Institute in an automo-
>he when several shots were fired at
he car. Lenine was not injured,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-01
AMERICANS WILL
BE TORTURED BY
GERMAN CAPT0RS
OFFICERS OF Z. S. FORCES COME
INTO POSSESSION OF DOCU-
MENTS SHOWING ORDERS.
Be Gagged AND STARVED
All American Soldiers for Four Days
After Capture Not BE Allowed to Sit
Down or Lie Down, and Get No Food
Revenge for Patriotism.


With the American Army in France.
Jan. 3l.-(Thursday)-- officers
at the front have come into possession
of documents said to have been taken
from Germans opposite our positions,
and which deal with the treatment to
be accorded prisoners. The documents
say that all prisoners, including com.
miSsloned and non-commissioned off.
GERS, are to be kept in cages for four
days without food and compelled 10
stand all the time. After the four-dav
reriod only small quantities Of food are
to he given.
Although definite information on the
point is lacking some American officers
;oday expressed belief that the order
resulted from difficulties the Germans
probably experienced in extracting in.
ormation from the first American pris-
oners cabtured in November. such
treatment of prisoners, it is felt. could
be designed only to make them give up
military information.
Conditions We're quiet on the Ameri.
can sector all day today because of fog
which tonight showed no signs of
dbating. Beyond a few shots from both
sides at registered targets there was
very little artillery fire. There was
virtually no infantry action.
Additional details of yesterdays raid
show that only the herolsm of the
pIatoon in the trenches near the listen.
ing post raided prevented the enemy
from entering the trenches and perhaps
capturing prisoners.
AS soon as the barrage fire lifted
the platoon came out of its dugouts and
stepped to the firing platforms. Their
rifles held off superior number of Ger
mans who tried to approach. When the
enemy saw that the Americans were
determined to hold the position, they
withdrew into the fog. Later a number
of bloody enemy rifles and other eouip
ment were found beyond the American
position,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-01

Kansas City, Feb. 1.-The cold wave
which for the greater part Of the week
has extended generally over the South
west is ended, and the temperature will
rise slowly until the first part of next
week, when average winter weather
will come to remain indefinitely, off,
cials of the local weather bureau said
today.
Although it was extremely cold in
some parts of Missouri and Kansas
early today, reports received at the local
bureau indicated that in most places
the arrival of warmer air already had
been noticed
In Kansas City it was nine below
at c o'clock this morning. In northern
Kansas the lowest reading was 16 be
low. Warmer weather already has ar
rived in Oklahoma, Arkansas and Tex
as, it was reported here At Dallas d
slight snow was falling early today.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-01
WEATHER FORECAST.

For Ardmore and vicinity; Tonight
and Saturday fair, not so cold.
Oklahoma: Tonight and Saturday fair,
not SO cold
East Texas: Tonight cloudy, freezing
to coast; not so cold in northwest por-
ton; Saturday fair, rising temperature.
West Texas Tonight fair, rising tenn.
perature; Saturday fair.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-01
WAR SUMMARY.

Military operations on the western
front still are Of a minor character on
the front between Asiago and the Brenta
Ine Italians persist in their attacks,
although not on such a large scale as
earlier in the week. New Italians posi-
lions west Of the FrenZela valley have
oeen extended. Berlin says that new
italian attacks near Asiago have been
repulsed.
A severe blow to the ambitions OF the
Ukrainian republic appears to have been
dealt in the capture of Kiev, the tenn
porary capital, by the bolshevilli. The
city Is said to have surrendered after
a few shots had been fired.
Peace negotiations between Russia
and the central powers have reopeGed
at Brest Litovsk. A report from Peyro-
grad says the first question taken up
concerned the occupied territories,
which has been a stumbling block since
the pourparlers began.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-01
Flood Near Chattanooga.

Chattanooga, Tenn, Feb. Three
suburban street car lines suspended
service today owing to the flooding Of
lowlands near this city due to a rise in
the Tennessee River, which today
reached stage of All feet. The river
is expected to continue to rise to a
maximum of 42.5 feet with the crest
forecast for tomorrow.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-01
SENATOR GORE OFFERS BILL
FOR DEHYDRATION PLANTS

Washington Feb. IA BILL author.
izing the secretary of agriculture to
establish throughout the country de.
hydration plants for the drying of fruits
and vegetables was introduced by Sena.
ator Gore, The plants will be open for
public use and states or municipalities
would pay one-half of the cost. An ap.
proprlation of 100000 for the work is
proposed.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-01
More Entente Warships
Awiue at VzadiOostoR

London, Feb. 1.-Five more entente
warships have arrived at Vladivostok,
according to special dispatches from
Petrograd.
1t is added that China, acting on al
lied advice, has forbidden expectation
of foodstuffs to Russia.
1t is reported in Moscow that the
Turks have proposed a separate peace
to the transCaucasian council Of
workmen's and soldiers delegates. It
is said that negotiations are in progress
looking to restoration of steamship
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-01
CITIZENS STORM OFFICE OF
MAYOR, DEMANDING COAL

Toledo Ohio, Feb. Hundreds Of
citizens stormed the Office of Mayor
Schreiber yesterday and demanded coal.
with the temperature at zero and indi-
cations for ten degrees lower last night,
many homes were without fuel The
mayor arranged with dealers to Nupply
citizens with u few bushels each.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-01

London. Feb. Little fresh infor-
nation on the strike movement in Ger
many had come through early today
and virtually all the news in the morn
ing papers here has been delayed in
transmission. None of the Berlin news.
papers of Wednesday, date has arrived
in Amsterdam, and several Of them are
not printing, owing to strike among
their employees,
Delegates representing the strikers,
according to Amsterdam reports att
tempted to interview Chancellor Won
llertling, but he refused to see them,
as had Herr Walraf, minister Of the
interior.
The actual situation Thursday is eX-
tremely vague. Scarcity Of news in.
duces some correspondents in Holland
to assume that the situation has grown
worse. but they warn against attaching
Importance to the strike movement as
far as the army is concerned.
The Berne correspondent of The
Daily Mail deprecates a too ready as
sumption that the strike viii have Sc.
rious effects in Germany. He says no
strike or revolt in Prussia can be taken
seriously until it has won its spurs.
People Are Mechanical
The mind and moral will of the whole
population has been made too effectively
mechanical by a century of military
drill 1t must be remembered, too, that
strike funds are almost non-existent in
Prussia, for although the workmen
have been earning high wages, the
have virtually been compelled to 8
scribe nearly all to the war loans a
get no interest.
Newspaper opinion in London regard
ing the strike is divergent. Some pa
pers incline to the belief that the strike
really denotes growing strength Of a
democratic spirit in Germany, while
others favor the view that the whole
thing, to a great extent, has been engi-
neered by the government for its own
purposes. The Daily News, while ac-
cepting with reserve the most eXtrava.
giant accounts, thinks it is obvious that
and Austria some measure Of the spirit
which dethroned the Russian emperor.
Cleavage Appears at Last.
It adds THE tide for which Presi-
dent Wilson so long and so patiently
has waited is beginning to flow at last.
A cleavage between the German peo.
pie and their rulers stands revealed,
not ha OLE ie ~
an incipient one"
On the other hand The Daily Mail
argues that if revolution is talked
about in Germany, it is because the
German government wants 1t to be
talked about. The Daily Mail regards
the movement as really an appeal to
British and French workmen to strike,
and says that if the appeal succeeded,
the Germans would Immediately sup
press their own strikers and renew the
war with increased energy. In their late
editions, the morning papers print fur
ther items on the strike received by
way OF Holland, but all apparently re
fer to happenings on Wednesday.
Shipwcrkers Quit.
The Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zei-
tung says that the shipyard hands at
Dantzig struck Tuesday. The strike
began in the Schiohau yard and the
strikers were joined by 1000 in the gov
ernment yards. Up to Wednesday the
workers in the arms and artillery
plants at Dantzig had remained at
work.
The general commanding the Leipzig
district has posted placards in that
city threatening to send all the strikers
to the fighting front.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-01
WILSON SAYS BOAT
is TIGHT; NOBODY
CAN OVERSET II"

Columbus, Ohio, Feb. 1.--Gover'
nor James M. Cox sent the fol-
lowing telegram to President Will
son:
"Just sit tight in the boat. The
reaction will overwhelm those
whose politics have engrossed
their patriotism"
President Wilson sent the fol-
lowing reply:
THANK you heartily for the
message. You may be sure l shall
sit tight, for the boat is sound,
and nobody can overset it."
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-01

Cincinnati, Feb. 1.-The Ohio River
went over the sixty-foot mark here dur.
ing the night or more than ten feet
above danger line, and it is bringing
privation and hardships to hundreds of
families living in the lower lands.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-01
RESTRICTED INDIANS BUY
100000 WAR SAVINGS STAMPS

Muskogee, Okla, Feb. 1.--Restricted
Indians Of the five civilized tribes have
purchased 100000 of war savings
stamps, under authority from Cato
Sells, commissioner of Indian affairs.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-01

Evansville, Ind, Feb. With the
passing Of the great Green River ice
Gorge at Spottsville, KY during the
night, danger to river shipping inter
ests was practically eliminated for the
time being.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-01
CALL GREEKS TO CoLoRS

London, Jan. 81. - Thursday - Six
teen classes of Greek reservists have
been called to the colors, Reuter- dis
patch from Athens says.