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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-17
This Is No I 'iimn@ to Try to
Rum [BIuffOm Uncle Sam
(EditOrial)

The alacrity with which the city officials announced
what they going to do toward cleaning up Ardmore
following the conference with the federal authorities in
Oklahoma City and the speed with which they have
started off in the cleanup work are in inverse ratio
This will never do gentlemen 1t is no time to fool
with Uncle Sam You may have buffed it out before, but
times different If you do not intend doing any
thing is up to you to say and turn the job over to
the federal officers and have oyer without further de-
lay.
In all the talk about this cleanup the prncpa empha-
sis to have been put the scarlet women. Why
have not the gambling places and booeggers been in
cuded? Does that this latter force is we'll en-
renched that ambitious public officer wants to disturb
it when an election is coming on within few months?
Be this as it may, the public is in mood to brook
delay in the matter any pretext whatsoever, and it
that very fimsy pretex has been found the alb
of citizen from the community who counted
upon to aid in the work
Ardmore has been brought to the attention of the gov
ernmen and especially the administration, in very
favorable light up this time and if the city must
be set back by the nacton Of city officials in carrying out
the expressed desire of the federal authorities will
ceive black mark which will more than offset all the
prestige which has been won by great effort.
No., gentlemen the time has passed to get by with
making grandstand playing and then dropping the
matter Your word has been given and it is plainly up to
you to carry out your word to the letter without further
delay Get busy Let's have action then the people
may take you seriously next time
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-17
OF
RED CROSS WILL
VISIT ARDMORE
DIR. STOCKTON ARSON WILL
SPEaK AT CONVENTION
HALL TOMORROW.

DI. Stockton Axson, national
secretary of the American Red Cross
Society, will arrive in Ardmore to-
morrow and will be the principal
speaker, at 2 o'clock at Convention
Hall, at a conference of workers
who will engage in the second war
fund drive, which begins Sunday
with the countrywide publicity cam
paign Sunday. At this meeting food
conservation workers, under the di-
rection of Russell B. Brown, coun-
ty food administrator, and farmers
an, members of the school distric.
councis OF defense will also be pres
emf and ia he part in 4 general con-
ference on war activities.
Doctor Arson, who is a brotherin-
law Of President Woodrow Wilson,
ha; a wonderful war message and
everyone who can should attend this
meeting. Doctor Arson has only
recently returned from oversee,
wtere ne went to investigate cond.-
ticns, and has many thrilling first
hand, eye witness stories of German
atrocities, the destruction of cities
and will outline, in detail, the work
of the Red Cross.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-17
GLEN CONDON TO
SPEAK SUNDAY NIGHT

Glenn Condor, formerly a mem
ber OF the editorial staff of the Tulsa
World, who recently returned from
France, will address a Red Cross
mass meeting at Convention Hail
Sunday night Mr.. Condor has
electriie Oklahoma audiences with
his thrilling stories OF the western
frcnt and Ardmore people are ex-
ccptiona'ly fortunate in having an
opportunity to hear him.
The length of the wa. Mr.. Con-
don said, in recent speech, depends
upon the speed America puts into
her war program. He gave a graph
ic picture of the front the sacrifices
OF the allies, the German prison sys-
tee. horrors, the devastation of Bel
gi"m and northern France. He dis
cuSsed the different types of soldiers,
paving high tribute to every race but
tie German. OF them, Condor said
AT heart, the German soldier is
the biggest coward on earth. When
CAPTURED. they don't sell their lives
deorly like the allies do. they come
forward in droves crying kane
rad.
Referring to our own boys he
sad; God how they can fight"
He told how they average five Ger
mans 10 one American in every
hand-to-'. land struggle and how the
American lads, tired of lying out at
Continued on page p
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-17
CAPT. ANTONIO RESNATI
NOTED ITALIAN ACE,
FALLS TO QUICK DEATH

New York, May l7.-Capt.
Antonio Silvio Hesnati of the
Royal Italian Flying Corps.
who piloted the ten-passenger
Caproni biplane from Washing
toa to New York and back
1eain recently. was killed at
noon today at the Hampstead
f.rrg field.
ResHati. one OF the most ia
nous Italian military aviators,
met his death while testing an
Amcrican-built Caproni plane of
the bombing type. recently au-
tfcrized for purchase by the
United States government.
Flying alone and carrying a
cargo OF sixty bombs. Captain
Rcsaati left the flying field on
what vas to have been the first
test cf the new type of airplane.
The machine arose only 100 feet
when one of the planes crum-
pied and it fell backward. Cap
tain Hesnati, strapped to his
seat was unable to release him
self in time. and one OF the three
heayy engines crushed him to
death.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-17
GERMAN FACTORIES
BOMBED BY BRIT0NS;
AIR FIGHT RESULTS

London, May lin spite OF
determined opposition by Ger
man airplanes, British aviators
on Thursday dropped bombs OH
factories and the railway sta
ton at Saarbrucken III German
Lorraine, starting a fire on the
railway. After bombing the
town, the Birtishers turned on
the enemy and in aerial nghting,
says an official statement on
aerial activities issued last mid
night, destroyed five of the en-
emy machines. One of the Brit
In tense aerial fighting on the
western front "Wednesday, 81
German airplanes were account
ed for by British aviators, while
l. British machines are reported
missing.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-17
German Auiahon Has Proued
Failure, English Report Says

London. May l6.-(Correspond-
ence of The Associated Press).-
German aviation has proved a sig
nal failure in the great offensive on
the western front, according to
correspondent OF the Morning Post.
Writing from the front. he says:
German aviation does not resist
at present. There are two principal
reasons. the hrst being the tremen-
dous wastage caused by the inces-
san: attacks OF the British and
French pilots on German machines.
the second being the bombing OF air
dromes. The enemy today suffers
from lack both OF men and machines
in is flying arm.
"Ir every department the Ger
mans have been and still are exert
ing their full strength. Ii they had
airplanes available there IS no doubt
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-17
He WOULD FORCE
GERMANY TO JOIN
LEAGUE NATIONS
LABOR MEMBER OF BRITISH
CABINET HAS WORLD
PEACE PLAN.
STOP GUN MANUFACTURE
After War Is Won He Would Have
Nations in Compact and Make the
Huns Join It-Suggests Holland
Call Allies Now.

London, May IA suggestion
that the United States might ask
Holland to take the initiative i'll
calling upon the allied governments
to confer with The Hague, not in
substitution for, but preliminary to
the third Hague peace conference,
was made by George Nicoll Barnes,
labor member of the war cabinet
without portfolio, in discussing the
question of a league of nations last
night. He expressed hope that an
other Hague peace conference
would be held after the war.
Wouldn't Slacken War Efforts.
An allied conference at ;he Hague
now, Mr.. Barnes added, could be
held without slackening efforts 20
beat the Germans, and. lin fact,
might induce Germany to respect
her position in the world People
everywhere are ready Tor such
meeting. he said he believed.
Mr.. Barnes laid down the prin-
ciple that a league of nations must
be binding upon all powers, and
that nations must agree to submit
disputes to a world tribunal for
settlement He declared there must
be an agreement on reduction of ar
maments, the suppression OF private
capital in their manufacture and
the inauguration of some interna-
tional machinery by which effect
could be promptly given to inter
national DEGREES.
Force Germany In.
The inclusion of Germany in 4
league OF nations, the speaker de-
clared. should not be regarded as a
favor to Germany. but rather as
something to which she should be
required to subscribe. 1t might well
be one of the terms imposed upon
her at the peace conference.
Mr.. Barnes asked how peace
ably disposed league of nations
could reduce armaments while
nation of seventy million was lett
outside to form rival league and
again set the pace in the building
OF battleships and in all the deviltry
Of war preparation.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-17

that they would have made furl use
OF them. as we have done, for OBJ
servation purposes. to prevent the
bringing up of reinforcements, and
to diSorganize troops on the actual
field OF battle. They have done none
OF these things effectively.
The conclusion seems manifest
that it is because they have not the
necessary force available, In any
case the fact remains that German
aviation has ceased to be a force TO
be seriously reckoned with In the
last four weeks the situation. which
on several occasions has necessarily
been delicate, would have been very
much more so had the Germans
beer equipped with an adequate air
service to supply them with definite
observation
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-17
INTERNAL MACHINES
USED BY ENEMY ON
AMERICAN TROOPS
HUN PLANT BOMBS IN NO
MANS LAND TO KILL
PATROLS.
IS EXPL ODED BY WI RE
Still No Attempt Is Made by Ger
man Armies on Western Front to
Renew Offensive, Though Great
Attack Is Expected Soon.
(By The Associated Press. J


With the American Army in
France, May 1.-The Germans op-
pos.te the American sector north
west of Toul are resorting to in
fernal machines in order to check
the activity of American patrols,
members of which go out every
night to roam No Mans Land, and
even German land, virtually at will.
A member of an American patrol
stepped on a harmless looking wire
near the German lines and bomb
Immediately exploded in the center
of the patrol. 1t had been planted
by the enemy.
Germany still hesitates to renew
heavy fighting on the main battle
fields of the western front, but the
increase in aerial and artillery ac-
tivitv indicates that infantry fight:
ing on a larger scale than in the
past two weeks soon again may be
in progress.
Allied and Grman gunnars are
harrassing the opposing sides with
shell fire and this fighting continues
most marked on the front north Of
the Lys in Flanders, and south Of
the Somme in Picardy. 1t has been
the German policy to precede a
strong infantry operation with few
hours OF the most intense artillery
fire, but the enemy bombardments
have not vet reached the highest
pitch, though it is believed the Ger
man preparations for another often
sive move are about completed.
Recently British and French air
men have been meeting with little
opposition in dropping bombs on
railway stations, troop encampmentS
and ether military targets behind
the German lines. Now the enemy
has tecome most active and has at
tempted bombing raids behind the
allied lines as we'll as trying to pre-
vent the allied bombers from carry
ing on their work.
Fifty-Six Enemy Planes Dropped.
Fifty-six German machines are
reported accounted for by London
and Taris. OF these. 43 machines
were destroyed by allied aviators.
Berlin, on the other hand. claims
the destruction of 80 allied airplanes.
After battle with German air
planes, Britis hairmen on Thursday
dropped bombs on Saarbrucken,
German Lorraine, causing at least
one fire. The British then attacked
the German airplanes anew and de-
stroyed FIVE of them while losing
one Of their own number.
There has been no infantry activ-
ity except for patrol raids on all the
long fronts from the North Sea 10
Switzerland, including the Ameri-
car sectors. American artillerymen
in picardy again have caused fires
in Montdidier.
Italians Harrass Austrians.
Between Lake Garda and the
Piave the Italian troops are giving
the Austrains little rest. The sue
cess in gaining the summit of Mont
Corno. south OF Asiago. has been
followed by an operation against
Monte Asolone, just east OF the
Brsrta. At two places the Austrian
trenches were entered, the part OF
the garrison not killed or captured
fleeing. Vienna says the Italian ac-
tiyities spread TO Monte Pertica,
cast OF Asolone. Both these heights
are outposts OF the formidable Mon
te Giappa.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-17
W|NDSTORM WRECKS
TEXAS FARM HOUSES
MARROW TORNADO RACES
III FOR WORTH REGION.
GENEROUS RAINS.

Fort Worth, Texas. May u
Preceding a rain, wind swept over
a Seward stretch Of country a mile
south of Fort Worth this morning
at o o'clock. Four farm houses
were overturned and a dozen barns
and garages wrecked and fences
ruined
In TIE town OF Everman the Ma
sonic Hall. a blacksmith shop and
a residence were wrecked. One man
was injured.
At intervals good rains fell last
night all the way from Fort WORTH
to 1oyah. taking in the worst drouth
stricken section of west Texas. 4
thre. Inch rain fell at Baird.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-17
Angry Dutch Farmers
Destroy Fields Grain

Amsterdam. MAY T.-Extreme
steps taken by the Dutch authori-
ties in sending troops TO search
farms for the purpose of seizing
wrongfully withheld stocks OF grain
has aroused such indignation among
the farmers affected that they
threaten to plow up sown fields. In
some cases they are known to have
taken this unpatriotic source.
To Justify military action. the mil
iiary authorities have issued statis-
tics to show that the Haarlem Lake
district it is estimated that SO per
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-17

cent of the wheat crop, i3 per cent
of the barley, 90 per cent of the
beans and 50 per cent of the green
peas have been withheld.
The food shortage in Holland is
becoming serious. Not only is wheat
scarce but other foodstuffs as well.
1t has been decided that on June
IS. butter and other fats will be
added to thc ration list. Tea stocks
have long been exhausted and the
available supply OF coffee is dwin-
ding rapidly.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-17
CREEL APOLOGIES
TO U.S.. CONGRESS

Wash ngton, May E.-George
Creel. chairman OF the committee
oil public information, today apollo
gized to congress for his much-dis-
cussed New York speech in which
he was quoted as having said that
as he disliked Summing he would
not explore the hearts OF congress
men.
= admit the indiscretion and re-
grct it deeply" Mr.. Creel wrote to
Chairman Pou of the rules commit
te.. considering resolutions on the
incident.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-17
Negro Riveters Break Record.

Baltimore. Md. May IA gang
OF negro riveters working at the
Sparrcws Point plant of the Bethle-
hem Steel Corporation broke the
worlds record for driving rivets in a
steel steamship yesterday. Charles
Knight drove 4.&5 three-quarter-
inch 1vets. 2 5-S inches long. in nine
hours. The previous high record
was 4.442, established in a shipyard
in Scotland.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-17

A Joint conference Of speakers
who will conduct the campaign Of
education and publicity on the
countrywide drive in the interest G.
the Red Cross second war fund and
the inauguration of system OF
flour products cards, together with
officers of all the school district
councils of defense, and farmers
generally, will be held at Convention
Hall at 2 O'Clock tomorrow after
noon. The conferences are called
hy p. G. Dings, county chairman
Tor the Red Cross drive; Russell b.
Brown, county food administrator,
and J. Robert Gillian. president of
the county council of defense. It
is expected that several representa-
tives OF each school district will be
present.
DR.. Stockton Axson, secretary OF
the American Red Cross, who is a
brother-in-law of President Wood
row Wilson, will be the principal
speaker.
Every township and ward chair
man, together with representatives
cf each school district, are required
TO be present at this meeting. The
Four Minute men assigned for the
Sunday drive have been requested
to be present to receive final m
structions.
Carter county's quota IN this Red
Cross campaign is approximately
$4,000. Ardmore is expected 10
furnish $4,000 OF this amount.
Healdton, Wilson and Writ have
been assigned quotas of $4,000 each
ard Wynnewood, which is affiliated
with the Carter county chapter, will
raise $500.
The following list gives the divi-
sion teams, places and hours OF the
Sunday meetings, and the quota
each district is expected to sub
scribe:
Quotas and Assignments.
Following are the assignments OF
speakers, places and hours OF meet
ings, together with the quotas as
signed to be raised by each district.
Division No. III. G.. Spaulding
and Sam II. Butler: Lane Chapel
and Budd Young School, 1880 a.
m., quota $50; Baum 2:3O p. m.
Sl75; Clinton School 8 p. m. $40,
Prairie View School (negro), 8 p.
m, $50.
Division No. as. A. George and
Sam Weeks: Mulkey 1880 a. m.
SIS; District No. 10 (negro), 2:50
p. m. SIS; Hignight School 8 p. m.
Sl25.
Division No. 5-H. II. Brown ard
!. +. Hamilton: Nellda 1880 a. m.
500; Smyrna 3 p. m, SIS; Prov
ence s p. m, SlOO.
Division No. Al. B. Moore and
I. X. Pennington Henderson Flat
1880 a. m. quota, combined with
Barrett School, $50; District No.
Y, l:50 p. m, $50; Barrett school
5 p. m; Springer 8 p. IN, $3.50 Tin
oludes Chigger Hill.
Division No. 5-J. c. Thompson.
and w. T. Ward: Chigger Hill,
1880 a. m, (included in Springer
quota); Cullins School $50 p. m.
SIS; District No. Is, 3 p. m, SIS;
Berwyn 8 p. m, 500.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-17
OBJECTS TO ASSERTION
THAT HIS FAMILY HAD
INVADED STOREHOUSE

Referring to a news items in The
Ardmoreite yesterday afternoon
which told OF family that had
moved into a building on A street
northwest. which the Chamber of
Commerce planned to use for the
storage OF cotton seed. the head OF
the family complained today that
the item reflected an injustice upon
hir,. He states that he received
permission from the owners of the
building to rent and occupy it and
that the front part of the building
is :iow in use by him in the opera
tior of a repair shop.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-17
MORE AMERICAN
Troops ARRIVE
IN BATTLE ZONE
JOIN WITH BRITISH AND ARE
COMPLETING TRAINING
BEHIND LINES.
WILL SOON Be FIGHTING
American Aviators Bring Down An
other Hun Plane - Enemy Artil-
lery Fire Is Increasing Rapidly.
London War Office Says.
BY the Associated Press).

With the American Army in
France, May l7.-Troops of the new
American army have arrived within
the zone of the British forces IN
northern France and are now COM
pieting their training in the area
occupied by the troops which are
blocking the path OF the German
ports.
heir commander already has
commanded American forces in the
trenches On the French front.
The British officers and men
who are training the new force
say the Americans are of the
finest material and are certain to
give most excellent account
of themselves when they meet
the Germans.
The American forces on ar
irving within the British zone
were cheered to the skies by the
Sens Of Britain, many of whom
bore t,nmistakable signs of bat
tie. They had not seen the
Americans before, but they
knew they were coming.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-17
Florida Hanging Postponed.

Tampa, Fla, May H.-The hang
ing set today for Jasper and Ed
Nimb,. father and son, for the MUIR
der of A. ID. Buie, has been post
poned by Governor Cats to May 81.
which will allow their cases to be
taker before the pardon board May
2S in an effort TO get the commuta-
ton cf sentence. Buie was shot
frhm rmhush
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-17
MISS LUSK WILL sEi
BARE LIFE STORY
WITHOUT RESERVE

Waukesha, Wis.,, May E.-Grac.
Lnsk will bare the story of her life
without reserve when she takes the
witless stand in her trial for the
sllying of Mrs. Mary Newman Rob-
erts. probably next week. counsel
for the defense announced today.
DR.. David Roberts also will be a
witness. having been called by the
defense
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-17
WEATHER FORECAST

For Ardmore and vicinity:
Tonight and Saturday probably
showers.
Oklahoma: Tonight and Sat
urday; probably local showers.
East Texas: Tonight and
Saturday cloudy; probably
showers in north portion and
in the lower Rio Grande valley.
West Texas: Tonight and
Saturday cloudy.
Local Temperature.
Maximum temperature yes
terday 81 degrees; minimum last
night 90 .
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-17

Washington, May 1.-THE Amer
lean troops referred to as the new
American army" in dispatches today
reporting their arrival in the zone
of British operations in France, are
the forces being brigaded and train
ed with the British, probably on the
Flanders battle front.
They are not troops detached
from General Pershing's present for
ces. but are part of the new force
Of troops from America forecast by
Premier Lloyd George some time
ago.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-17

With the American Army in
France, May 17.-Americaa aviators
i'll the section northwest of Toul
brought down another German air
plane this morning.
Full details OF the action have
not been received. 1t appears, how
ever, that Lieut.. Edward Ricken-
bacher of Columbus, o., answering
an alarm shortly after daylight, en-
countered three enemy planes. He
attacked them and shot one down
three kilometers inside the enemy
lines.
Lieutenant Rickenbacher, former
ly an automobile racer. was deco
rated with the French war eros,
IN W ednesday. He assisted in bring
ing down a German airplane in en-
emy territory two weeks ago.
London. May 1.-THE German
?rtillery fire is increasingly active
from LOGON to Hinges. along the
western side of the Flanders salient
and between the forest of Nieppe
and Meteren on the northern side of
tie salient. the war Office announces.
The statement follows:
"A hostile raiding party was re-
pulsed last night in the neighbor-
hood of Moyenville, south cf Arras.
There was great artillery activity
en- both sides during the night in
the Pacaut wood sector north OF
Hinges. The hostile artillery also
has shown increased activity be
tween LOGON and Hinges and from
the forest OF Nieppe to Meteren."
Paris. May H.-Violent artillery
fighting in the region OF Hailles,
southeast of Amiens is reported il
today's official statement.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-17

Paris. May H.-Violent artillery
fighting in the region OF Hailles,
southeast of Amiens is reported il
today's official statement.
Graham guardian., 1918-04-19
MILITARY MORALS

One of the uses of the pro-
ceeds of. the Liberty Loan that
will appeal strongly to the great
mass of American people, is the
care and attention given to the
moral welfare and protection of
the American soldiers.
Heretofore with the American
Army and even now with some
Of the armies of our allies, the
moral welfare Of the soldier was
and is matter largely ignored.
In the German armies provision
is even made for immortality.
1t is to the glory of American
arms and American national
character that of the men who
wear the United States uniform,
a high standard of conduct is ex-
pected and demanded, and pro-
vided for. Kipling's Single
men in barracks" are not to find
their prototypes in the American
Army.
General Pershing says there is
no cleaner-living body of men in
the world than the American
Army in France.