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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-31
CITY NEWS AND VIEWS.

Judge l. r. Mason is having {
new home built on Second avenue
near Washington street. 1t will bt
two-story building and moder
in every respect.
Miss Bonnie Taylor OF Asphaltor
was in Ardmore today en- route tc
Norman, where she will enter thC
summer school at the state uni.
versity.
Miss Wood Morgan, who has
been visiting in Ardmore, returned
today to her home at Sulphur.
Mrs. A. NJ. McInnis went to Ok
lahoma City today, where she vii
visit her mother, Mrs. |. \. Webb
Miss Sallie Holman and nephew
Albert Halter, went to Davis today
to visit Mrs. Holman's sister, Mrs
J. T. West.
Misses Francis and Flora Sims,
who have been attending school in
Ardmore, returned today to theiI
HUlHt dl LlllUSdN.
Miss Texie White. who has been
attending school at Rolf was in
Ardmore today en- route to her
home at Thackerville.
Mrs. Louise Miller, who has
been visiting Mrs. w. G.. w. Yer
ner, went to Oklahoma City today,
where she will make her home.
Mrs. Frank White went to Okla
homa City today, where she will
visit for a short time.
Mrs. Ella Rash and daughter,
Miss Ida, are visiting Mrs. Rash's
son, w. F. Gentry.
]. H. Bibb OF San Antonio, Tex,
is visiting his mother Mrs. Nj. c.
Bibb, 403 D street, s. F.
K. F. Brown went to Terral to-
day where he will visit for a short
time.
Fl. c. Roberts went to Tulsa to-
day.
Mrs. Lester Adams Mrs. George
NJ. Adams and Miss Virginia Adams
have returned from Fort Worth,
Texas, where they went to spend
a day with Lester Adams, who is
engaged in the oil business at Rang
er, Texas.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. B. Echols of
Wichita, Kan, are visiting Mrs. NJ.
Echols.
Albert H. Hearn OF Writ has
for service in the L. 5.
army and left last night for Okla
homa City EN- route to Fort Logan,
Colo.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. F. Chambers Of
Memphis, Tenn, who have been Wis
iting their daughter, Mrs. Sam G.
Wood, have purchased the home OF
f. H. Langston, 4th avenue and
F street, southwest, and will make
their home in Ardmore. Mr.. Cham
bers left this morning for Memphis
to spend a few days.
Elmer s. Everett, 1rvan Rowland
and Harry Jones, who have been
attending the kemper Military Col
lege at Boonville, Mo, came home
yesterday to spend the vacation
months.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-31

son participated in the examina-
ton.
Mr.. Hughes explained that much
of his work hereafter will be the
questioning OF witnesses TO supple
ment information obtained from
war department and aircraft board
records. The identity of the wit
nesses will not be made known. be-
it is known number OF prominent
men connected with the air program
are to be called within few weeks.
Officials said today that while the
public has lost sight of the aviation
program in their interest in the
aircraft investigation, the construc-
ton of motors and planes has been
going forward steadily. Sufficient
motors have been turned out TO alb
sorb all the shipping space allotted
to them and to require storage room
on this side.
An inspection trip 10 airplane
manufacturing plants, beginning
Sunday, will be made by the SEN
ate military subcommittee investi-
eating the airplane situation.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-31
Confederate Veteran Dies.

Funeral services were held at
o'clock this afternoon for J. H
Clemens. SO years old, who died al
$50 o'clock yesterday afternoon al
the Confederate Home. The Rev
{. F.. Wagner, pastor of the First
Christian Church, conducted the
services at the home. The buria'
was in Rose Hill Cemetery. Mr.
Clemens is survived by wife, who
lives at the Confederate Home.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-31
All Bread Cards Mailed.

Russell Brown, food administra-
tor for Carter County. said all the
-four cards remaining in his Office
last night were now in the mail ;
that he finds many persons did not
properly give their address. and this
may account for some OF them not
receiving their cards. He said. for
instance. some would just write G.
street and give no house number.
This makes it impossible for the
postofice force to properly distrib-
ute them.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-31
Suit Against Oil Companies.

W. c. Newron, ct al, have filed
suit in the district court against the
Gates Oil Company. the Vernon
Collins Oil Company. the Stockman
Oil Company. Jake L. Hamon. the
Twin State Oil Company and the
Crystal Oil Company to recover
damages in the sumo OF 5000. The
plaintiffs allege in their petition that
they are the owners of lands
through which Red Oak creek flows
and that the defendants operating
oil wells on leases adjacent to that
stream have polluted the waters
thereof SO as TO destroy its use for
watering cattle and thereby the
plaintiffs have been damaged.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-31
BUBONIC PLAGUE SHIP
ARRIVES AT GRAVESEND

London, May 5l.-When the
steamship Somalia arrived at
Gravesend Yesterday from Bombay
it was found that three members oi
the crew were suffering symptoms
suggesting the bubonic plague. Two
cases. one of which ended fatally,
proved to be plague.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-31
COLOGNE OFFICERS SCARED

Geneva, Thursday. May S0-Re-
ligious professions in celebration Of
the feast OF Corpus Christi were
held in the diocese of Cologne to-
day. According to The Tribune,
Cardinal Won Hartmann, At the re-
quest OF the civil and milifar au-
thorities. forbade the professions
for fear OF allied air raids.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-31
1900 ROCK ISLAND
SHOPMEN WALK OUT

Moline, May 31.-Eighteen hun
dred men at the Silvis shops of the
Rock Island railroad walked out
today.
Washington. May 3l.-The rail-
road administration announced to-
day that it would send a represent
ative Immediately to Moline. ILL.,. to
investigate the walkout at the Rock
Islands Silvis shops OF 1900 men.
Washington. May 3l.-As a re-
suit of Director General McAdoo' 5
appeal to railroad employees not TO
strike against the government for
higher wages. the number OF pro-
tests against this neY wage order
received at the railroad administra-
ton suddenly declined today and all
were milder in form than the first
received. The board on railroad
wages and conditions will take up
here next week all complaints of
employees who feel that they were
given insufficient increases. Though
it is believed by now, it is explain
ed that all railroad men will surely
have had opportunity to study the
wage order in detail and to conpre-
hend that it is issued with the ex-
pectation OF later making modifica-
tions-
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-31
Deliberate Attempt To Bomb
american Base HOSPITALS

villages behind our lines without re-
gard to military objectives.
The Eighty-second German re-
serve division. from which the
Americans took prisoners in the
fighting at Cantigny, is commanded
by General Won Lorne und Stauge.
This officer served on both the Rus
sian and western fronts and came TO
Cantigny between May II and Is.
His division participated in the
German offensive on the San River
in May. 1915, which pierced the
Russian front in Galicia.
In one French village a large
funeral establishment opposite a
hospital was bombed by Hun air
men and wrecked. Although the
patients in the hospitals were hur-
riedly covered with blankets and
carried off to cellars, there was no
panic anywhere.
The Americans and French joked
and laughed. One American, who
participated in the capture of Can
tigny. said:
We've got Fritz goat. We licked
the tar out of him when we took
Cantigny. Now that some of US
are sick or injured and helpless, he
wants revenge. II numbering sick
and wounded, defenseless women
and old men and children is his idea
OF kultur, we must destroy 'kul-
tur,' if it takes hundred years"
The American troops went over
the top along a front of 500 yards.
At the same time, the American
artillery opened fire.
The men advanced behind the
barraee, while the guns pounded the
enemy lines and the rear. Engineers
broke up the entanglements. Troops
poured into the defense.
A German prisoner attempted to
escape on the way across no mans
land and was killed by Massa-
chusetts corporal
With the American Army i'll
France, May 5l.-(By the Associat-
ed Press)-American aviators shot
down another German airplane to-
dav on the front northwest of Toul.
1t fell within the American lines.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-31
Son Arrives in France.

Mrs. George w. Chaffee received
card this morning from her son,
John w. Chaffee, who has just ar
rived in France with the American
expeditionary forces. He enlisted
in Chicago and is a member of
Company /, l32nd Infantry, 33rd
Division. His wife and baby are
here in Ardmore, living with his
parents. Mr.. Chaffee reports an en-
joyable voyage and that every one
is in good spirit.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-31
Fire DESTROYS Railroad Property.

Fire destroyed the oil house and
Office building adjoining the store
room OF the Ringing Railroad Com
pany at about II o'clock last night.
No estimate of the loss is available
just now. but heavy loss was sus-
tanned. The fire is OF unknown
origin.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-31
Soft lob for Hun General.

Amsterdam, May 3l.-General
Alexander Won Linsingen has been
appointed commander-in- chief Of
Brandenburg for the duration of the
war by the German emperor. He
was formerly commander of Ger
man army group on the eastern
front
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-31
(By the Associated Pressl

With the American Forces on
the French Front, Wednesday,
May 2e.-The German air attack
on Tuesday night on american
hospitals in town many miles be-
hind the front was carried out with
the utmost apparent deliberation.
The German airmen used umbrella
flare to aid them in picking out
their targets. Their bombs also
fired a garage, which lighted up
the neighborhood in which is one
OF the finest ca,hedrals in France.
The airmen also turned their
machine guns on the firemen en-
gagged in fighting the flames, and
upon ambulance drivers.
Besides the killing OF one French
nurse, and the probable mortal in
jury of another, patients in one
American ward were hurled out OF
their beds by shock OF bomb
explosion. In some OF the hospit-
ais patients were taken to the Gel
lars for safety.
Nearly every window in one of
the largest hospitals was shattered
as were the windows in the his
toric church adjoining, now also
used as hospital Scores Of
American patients and hundreds of
sick and wounded French soldiers
were in the hospitals attacked.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-31

No. II, which is now running at
Ito p. m. o'clock, will arrive at
les. No. II, due at 4;20, will ar
rive at 4 AZ.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-31
HUGHES BEGINS PROBE
INTO AIRCRAFT TROUBLE
Officers of Signal Corps Are First
Called to Testify.

Washington, May 5l.-Officers
of the signal corps in charge OF
awarding of contracts for airplanes,
today were called before Charles
E. Hughes, in charge OF the de-
psrtment Of justice investigation
into aero production, and question
ed. Attorney General Gregory and
Assistant Attorney General Frier-
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-31

albany, N. Y, May Ex-Governor
Whitman today made public the
text fthe anti-loafer proclamation
which he will issue tomorrow. 1t
sets forth that the industries of the
state essential in the successful
prosecution of the war require a
large supply of labor. 1t con-
tinues:
Public exigency requires that
every able-bodied male person be-
tween the ages of Is and 50 years
inclusive be habitually and regu-
larly engaged in some useful en-
ployment. trade or work, during
the continuance of the present war
The statement also declared that
any person refusing TO be employed
at least SO hours week is liable
to fine of 500 and imprisonment for
not more than three months, or
both.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-31

London, May 3l.-The German:
in their reprisals against peasant
disorders in the Ukraine drenched
several villages near Kiev with gas
according to a Petrograd dispatch
to the Daily Express. Thus, adds
the message, whole communities
were asphyxiated.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-31
BRITISH CASUAL TIES
FOR MAY 166,8O2

London, May 3l.-Casualties in
the British ranks reported during
the month of May reached total of
l6o802, The losses were divided as
follows
Killed or died OF wounds: Off
GERS, 1886; men, 205lS.
Wounded or missing; Officers
6,l82; men, l5S,566.
British casualties reported week
by week have been running near
the 10000 mark, evidently repre-
senting the losses sustained during
the heavy fighting that started with
the beginning of the German often
sive in March. The total reported
during April was only 52,475, as the
lists apparently did not begin to re-
fleet fully the effects Of the casual
ties sustained in resisting the Ger
man thrusts in Picardy and Flan-
ders until the beginning of May.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-31
PARIS SUFFERS AGAIN.

Paris, May 3l.-The German long
range bombardment OF Paris was re-
sumed early this morning.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-31
Change in Santa Fe Trains.

Effective Sunday, June ?, trains
Nos. | and Il on the Santa Fe rail-
way will run a few minutes later.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-31

FOR SALE-Forty shares common,
20 preferred. Chickasaw Refining
Co. stock. VIII take $500 cash
for all Address T. H. Hefley,
First National Bank. 3l-3
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-31

FOR SALE-l.S00 #. secondhand
lumber. SIS; one 6-hole range. S.;
three brick hods, Sl.50; one NOR
tar hod. 81. at W. F. Nuts store,
ll22 Twelfth Ave. n. w. Phone
1896. 3l-3
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-31

FOR SALE-o0-foot corner lot on
Caddo St. n. F., $3.50. terms; bet
ter price for cash. Will take Lib
erty bonds at par. c. c. Lynch,
Phone 65. 3l-3
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-31
DRASTIC ANT|-LOAF|NG
PROCLAMATION ISSUED
EVERY MAN AND YOUTH IN
NEW YORK STATE MUST
WORK.

Chicago, May 3l,-Police cap
tains have been ordered to instruct
every "loafer" in their districts to
have a job by Monday morning, it
was said today.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-31

Maria Pia, which caused the death
OF her captain and several passen-
gers, reached here today in diplo-
matte dispatches. The vessel reach
ed Spanish port after the en-
counter.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-31

NICE sleeping room, close in, for
lady or ladies. Address B, care
Ardmoreite. 5l-3
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-31

Read i, in the ArdnoreiIs srst-
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-31

WANTED. TO BUY-Cane baby
buggy or pull cart. Phone 1867.
3l-3
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-31

Paris. May 3l.-Numerous refu-
gees from Scissors, Rheims, Cha,
teau Thierry (on the Marne) and
other points, arrived in Paris dur
ing the night and were sent onward
toward the center of France. They
had been ordered to vacuate thier
homes and were carried on motor
trucks to the nearest railway.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-31
(By The Associated Press.)

(By The Associated Press.)
With the American Army in
France, May 3l.-American forces
northwest of Toul carried out a sue
cessful raid against the German
lines late last night.
With the American Army in
France, Thursday, May 50,-Ger-
man artillery in the course OF the
night severely bombarded the new
positions of the Americans at Can
tigny, west of Montdidier.
They fired as many as four thou
sand high explosive shells in brief
space of time.
Several attempts made by the Ger
mans to come over were repulsed
with heavy losses by the Americans.
Enemy airmen were active last
night and this morning boz ing
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-31

Moscow, Wednesday, May 81
The revolutionaries, German forces,
while disarming Ukrainian troops
today at Odessa, were fired upon.
The Germans then arrested num-
Der of the important personages in
the Black Sea port and took them
to the German army headquarters.
Peasant disorders are spreading
throughout the province OF Podolia.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-31

With the American Army in
France. May 3l-Another big Brit
ish hospital was bombed by Ger
man airmen early yesterday morn
ing, and once more many medical
workers and some patients were
killed or wounded. The hospital
caught fire after large section of
the building had been demolished
by bomb. A few women nurses
were among the slain, and their
bodies, together with those OF a
considerable number OF the per-
sonnel and patients, are buried in
the ruins, according to the latest
report.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-31
Too Late to Classify.

STRAYED-One small dehorned
Jersey COW. Reward. Phone
1898. 3l-3
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-31

FIFTY BOLTS OF canvas for wall
papering; get it now. Henry
Flynn. 3l-3
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-31

AN ELEGANT LINE of ladies'
silk gloves, ladies hats, just re-
ceived at less price than anywhere
else. Every size in boys khaki
suits, also hats and caps cheap.
Henry Flynn. 3l-3
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-31

Havana. May 3l.-Two United
States naval hydro airplanes arriv-
ed today at Cuban porte having
flown from an American port
Washington. May 3l.-N<ws OF
the shellins CT the Spanish steamer
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-31

An Atlantic Port, May 3l.-A
mission representing the British
Medical Society, arrived here to-
day to attend the American con-
gress Of medical societies to be
held in Chicago on June 10. The
members include Sir James Mac
kenzie, Sir Arbuthnot Lane and
Colonel Herbert A. Bruce, consult
ing surgeon OF the British army in
France.
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-03-15
Harry Unger and Sister
Martha Make Total
of Three Dead.
GASOLINE POURED
NKITCHEN STOVE
Five-Year-Old Girl is
Reported AS Having
Chance to Live.
Tuesday, March IL

Mrs. Minnie Unger, rs, her
son, Harry, p, and daughter,
Martha, 46, died at the Bridge
port hospital early today, while
another daughter, little The
resa Unger, 5 years of age,
fingers in intense agony at the
point Of death from burns sus-
tanned when gasoline was
poured on a slow fire to make
it burn better at their home,
1871 Spring street, last night.
Harry Unger had returned from
work about $50 last evening when he
noticed the fire in the kitchen range
was low. Getting a gasoline can he
poured some of the liquid on the
smouIdering Goals and green kindling.
An explosion followed Immediately,
setting fire to his clothing and the
clothing of the other members of the
family, as well as the furnishings of
the room.
Vainly he tried to beat out the
flames which enveloped the bodies of
his mother and sisters, entirely neg
lectirg himself until he was like Il
human torch. Then seeing the futility
of his efforts he rushed from the
house and across a field for about 100
yards to summon aid.
Neighbors came to his assistance
and while he threw himself in the
mud on the road they wrapped him in
their coats. Others ran to the house
to render aid to his mother and sis
tiers while someone sent in a fire alarm
from Box 461, and call for the
Emergency hospital ambulance. Up
on the arrival of the apparatus the
fire was quickly subdued with only
about $50 damage. DR.. Pasuth had
the unconscious fire, victims taken to
Bridgeport hospital.
Harry Unger fingered until about
o'clock this morning, when he died
His mother died an hour later
Martha, his sister, suffered the most
intense agony until five o'clock Wher
she expired. Theresa still lives, but
there is grave doubt whether she will
survive or not.
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-03-15
Eight Americans Leaped
Into Sea to Save Vic
tins of Sub.
PRAISES SOUNDED
OF PARKER'S CREW
Quartermaster Cole is
Mentioned
Ship Fireman.

London, March 10 - Sir J.
Fortescue Flannery, member
for the Maldon division Of Es-
sex, announced today that he
would call the attention of the
First Lord of the Admiralty to-
day in the House of Commons
to the remarkable heroism and
seamanship displayed by the
American crew Of the destroyer
Parker in rescuing nine sur
vivors, including the uncon-
scious navigating officer of the
hospital ship Glenart Castle,
sunk in the Bristol channel late
in February.
The member said he would suggest
that the admiralty suitably recognize
the skill of the navigator of the
Parker and the gallantry Of the eight
American sailors who jumped into
the sea and swan to the rescue of sur
vivors on RATS and wreckage.
The Glenart Castle sank at 4
o'clock in the morning of Feb. 26.
The destroyer, although far distant.
picked up a wireless message and
hurried to the scene, where she
searched the choppy sea for surviv-
ors. The first one was sighted at 1
o'clock in the afternoon-a lone man
| on raft.
In these submarine infected waters
it was impossible for the destroyer to
| halt and launch boats. She threw a
line to the survivor but he was so
| weak that he became entangled in
the line and was carried astern of
the destroyer and severely cut by her
propellers. He managed, however
to climb back on the raft.
The destroyer circled the scene and
as it passer the raft again Quarter
master J. C. Cole jumped overheard
| and brought the man to the de-
stroyer. He was a fireman, Jesse
! White, of Southampton. He died
later on board the destroyer, which
| continued her search and in the
| course OIL lu0 dlI0THOOH SlSnleu three
more groups of survivors clinging to
RATS and wreckage, all of whom were
similarly rescued.
| In congratulatino the crew of the
destroyer Vice-Admiral Sims, COM
mander of the American naval forces
| in the war zone, telegraphed:
1.-THE work done in wintry seas and
gales by all the destroyers' crews has
been inspiring, but none more SO than
the Parker's."
One of the survivors who was res
cued late in the afternoon said he
| sighted a submarine while he was
struggling in the water. The U-Boat
passed within a few yards of him
There were two Germans on her
deck. He hailed her and asked for
help, but the Germans paid no atten-
1 ton to him.
| The official report of the sinking
| of the Glenart Castle, on which it is
estimated. 1913 persons lost their
lives, announced that survivors had
been landed by an American torpedo
boat, the name of which was not
| given.