davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-20
Larceny Charged

E. Manning. negro, was arrested near the Terminal station yesterday afternoon by Detectives Coleman and Richardson and lodged in the city jail charged with grand larceny. It is alleged that the ne- gro stole q .poeketbook containing slsu
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-20
NEWS OF ANlVLS7ON
 AND CAMP MCCLELLAN

the ringleader of the gang.
 William Warren, a discharged New Jersey soldier, convicted at the last term of the federal court for violation of the prohibition laws and given 3 jail sem tence by Judge Grubb. was the second member of the trio who took French leave. and Fred Beatty was the third man. He was also serving jail sen- tence for violation of the federal prohi- bition laws.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-20
JUST USE SLOAN'S
 L|N|MENT ONCE Then you'll understand why it's the worlds greatest
 pain relief.

Sloan's Liniment does exactly what is claimed for it--relieves quickly, without rubbing. It penetratcs. Useful in reliev- ing external pains, soreness and stiff ness, such as follow exposure. over-ex- ercise or unusual exertion.
 A big bottle kept handy will last long and pay for itself in comfortable relief the first application. Clean. convenient. economical. Can be bought at any drug store, get it today. soc. s0c, 31.20.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-20
Dwelling Damaged

A dwelling belng occupiel by c. s. Crossgioze, on Twenty-first and Hum bolt avenues. was damaged by fire yes- terday afternoon, the damages being es- timated at about $50 The orginin was due to a spark having lodged on the roof, 1t is said.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-20
ADJUSTMENTS
THEATRES

Jefferson-'The Boomerang" Lyric--Keith's vaudeville. Biiou-Loew's vaudeville and feature pictures.
 PHOTOPLAYS Strand-Enrico caruso in My Cousin" Alcazar-Sessue Hayakawa in "The Temple of Dusk. Rialto-Nornla Talmadge in "The For bidden City"
 Colonial-Bryant Washburn in The Gypsy Trail.
 odeon Two-General programme. Prineess-qeneral programme. Trlanon-- Mabel X No1nand in "Peck's Bad Girl"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-20
PERSONAL

Cards announcing the safe arrival of Sergt. William r. Fidger overseas have been received by his relatives.
 A. II. Daniels has returned from Chattanooga, where he attended the funeral of his sister, Mrs. q. ". Chun
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-20
At Loew's Riiou

among other scenes show peace celebra- tions in New York and Chicago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-20

they threw themselves into the war with such force as to amaze the war veterans of Europe He palu d glowing tr4nule to President Wilson, who was willing to send his men and money to aid ill thls light for right
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-20

Jefferson-"The Boomerang. Tx,r;c. aifl,fu va ,slex-illa
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-25
HOLDUPS ROB
AU TO|STS ON
OIL FIELDS ROAD

Two automobiles carrying several
men and boys were held up i'll the
oil field Saturday night by two or
more masked robbers and relieved
OF various small sums, totaling not
more than $40. Three men are in
the county Jail charged with the
otfenSc.
Joe billiard and a l5-year-old boy
were in one automobile. billiard was
struck across the face and a pistol
was jabbed in the mouth of the
boy.
Another car was later held up,
and after the occupants lad been
robbed Of their money they were
made to turn their car and go back,
50 as not to be able to give infor-
nation to the officers. The others
reached Hewitt, the robberies oc-
curing near there, and in a short
time a number OF officers were after
the robbers.
The men were held up at about
midnight and it was 2 o'clock when
the chase began. Sheriff Buck Gar
rett said today the efficiency of a
bloodhound was thoroughly proven
in the capture Of these robbers. He
said Manager Dale and Special Of
hcer Dan Blackburn of the Carter
Oil Company have taken every
means to combat the menace of the
|. w. VS. and Socialists in that
held and the company procured two
bloodhounds from the Huntsville,
Texas, state penitentiary. One of
them was put on the trail Saturday
night, picked it up at once and fol-
lowed it unerringly from Wilson to
Lone Grove, down the railroad track
and led to the house where two of
the men were found.
J. L. Carothers, who lives at Lone
Grove, and his brother, +. M. Ca
rothers, were arrested at the home
of the former and J. +. Gardenhire
was found under the hay in a barn
four miles north of there. Garden
hire is stranger who came to the
field from Texas last week and on
Saturday was employed by F. M.
Carothers to do farm work.
Telephone messages brought many
of the officers of the field to join in
the chase, which lasted from z
o'clock until about daylight. Among
them were Deputies Budd Ballew
Will Ward, Joe Taylor, Justice Ben
F. Coe, Dan Blackburn, Constable
Charles ones, Lem Bates, w. B
Blanton, N. Swayne, special officer
of the Roxana Oil Company, ant
many others.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-25

ant McQuarric said in that hall and
would say again, that we did not
want to delude ourselves that if we
whipped Germany, and we will
that will be an easy taSk-but that
it will be like butting the bull off
the bridge, by main strength. He
said he believed there was not a
business man who would not sacri-
tice his every need that the banner
of freedom may not be trailed in the
dust. He told the bankers they now
have the keys of the city and to
take all they could find.
At the conclusion of the address
of welcome, the program called for
response by L. T. SammonS, ac-
tive vice-president of the First Ma
tional Bank of McAlester, but Mr..
Sammons not being able to attend
the meeting, and the hour being late,
this feature was passed and Lieut..
Hector MacQuarrie of the British
Royal Artillery was introduced to
deliver his address on Conditions
at the Front" Lieutenant Mac
Quarrie spoke for nearly an hour
and was frequently interrupted by
outbursts of applause. He made a
plea for confidence in official Wash
ington, for the earnest, selfsacri6c-
ing support of the boys in service
and forecast the firm cementing Of
the friendliness of the British and
United States people. Lieutenant
MacQuarrie told many interesting
incidents of the Britons' preparation
for war, the sacrifice of British
manhood in the early stages of the
conflict and gave several humorous
anecdotes Illustrating his point that
grimness is not the sole makeup OF
the soldier.
Lieutenant MacQuarrie left on
the Santa Fe at noon today for Ok
Continued on page p
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-25
L. s. Senator Denounces
Demand Of Shipworkers
and Capital as Menace

of a great world principle depends,
and we are told that every line of
industry upon which the life of the
government depends will soon be re-
duced to the same condition OF i'm
potency.
"The time has arrived for the
American people to accept this chal-
lenge,
This bolsheviki cancer which is
sapping our strength and jeopardiz-
ing our safety manifests itself in its
most malignant form in supply prof
iteering and in labor proGteering in
our shipyards."
"ln supply prodteering," Senator
McCumber said he would name only
one shipyard, Hog Island. The
foundation of that yard, he SAID, "is
laid on graft and the cost of CON
struction, he SAID, will be three or
four times the governments orig
inal estimate" adding, this single
hoidup of the government will prob
ably cost not less than $30,000,000." -"
Live conditions prevail he con
tinued, throughout the country
wherever speeding up production
has become necessary. Contracts of
the most atrocious character, al
ways against the government, have
been O. KID by government officials.
The government pays every dollar
OF expense for raw materials and
yet pays individuals enormous
profits.
Men who never saw a shipyard,
men who had no capital, have been
given contracts to build ships, and
they in turn have contracted to sub
let those contracts to others, re-
tanning big commissions.
Banks have charged immense
bonuses for securing contracts for
their customers, and all this within
CONTINUED on Duan ~
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-25
Group FiOe, Oklahoma
Bankers, in Convention

Group Five of the Oklahoma
Bankers Association is in session at
Convention Hall today. There was
a large attendance when the open
ing session began this forenoon and
more came in on later trains. Many
OF the bankers are accompanied by
their wives and daughters. There
are many counties i'll the district,
comprising all that territory south
of the Canadian River and from the
west line OF Carter County to the
Arkansas line, and all were repre-
sented.
0. NJ. Anderson, president of the
Bank of McAleSter at McAleSter, is
chairman of Group Five and pre-
sided Following music by the
Chamber of Commerce Band and
after America had been sung by
the delegates the invocation was
pronounced by the Rev. r. Z. L.
Morgan, pastor of the Broadway
Methodist Church.
Judge w. P. Freeman was intro
duced by the chairman and deliv-
cred an address Of welcome on be-
half of the city of Ardmore. Judge
Freeman warmly welcomed the dele
gates to the city and among other
things told them the nation is pass
ing through the greatest crisis OF
history; that he believed the forces
of ability and righteousness will
when the victory is won, purge the
world of its wickedness and make
it better world. He said the Ger
man Juggernaut is rolling on and it
is our duty to crush this great men
ace Of freedom. He said the bank
ers are the men who go into theil
counting rooms and compute whal
is the country's need and it is upor
them that the nation depends fol
the sinews of war. He said ht
wanted to reiterate what Lieuten
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-25
MONARCHY FOR RUSSIA?

London, Feb. 25. - Germany
plans to restore the monarchy in
Russia, according to a telegram
dated Friday from Petrograd to
The Morning Post. Ii says that
the Grand Duke OF Hesse has
been appointed to command in
the Riga section of the German
front.
His sister" the dispatch adds,
the former Empress Alexandra,
as the guardian of her son, the
former czarevitch, is the favor
ite German candidate for the
throne, The former emperor
will not accept the throne from
German hands.
"The bolSheviki have provided
a form of government which the
Russians alone understand is
pure despotism. They have
paved the way for the return of
the monarchy
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-25

Petrograd, Feb. "A (Sun lay-.-
The Germans late Saturday still
were advancing into the provinces
they had decided to occupy. 1t is
reported they are executing Red
guards, treating them as outlaws,
but releasing and disarming soldiers
of the regular army.
The Prayda, the bOlShevik organ,
declares the Germans are restoring
shoulder straps to Russian officers
and forcing Russian soldiers to sa-
lute them.
The resolution to agree to the
German peace terms was adopted
by the central executive committee
of the all-Russian council of work
mems and soldiers delegates by a
vote of l26 to IS. Twenty-six mem
bers of the committee were not
present.
Their knees are on our chest and
our position is hopeless declared
Nikoiai Lenine, the bolsheyik pre-
mier. in the course of his long
speech to the central executive com
mittee of the all-RuSsian courcil of
workmen's and soldiers delegates,
in which he insistently urged ac-
ceptance OF the Austro-German
peace conditions, however, oppres-
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-25
CHICAGO PACKERS HAD
INSIDE INFORMATION
HENEY READS LETTERS RE
VEALING MORE CONFI-
DENTAL MATTERS.

Chicago, Feb. 25.-Heads of the
packing industry had inside infor-
nation that Joseph b. Cotton, a
New York attorney, would be ap-
pointed to assume charge OF the
packing and live stock department
OF the federal food administration,
and several of them saw him before
his appointment was announced,
This fact was revealed today in pri-
yate letters which Francis !. Heney,
special counsel for the Federal
Trade Commission, read in the gov
ernments investigation Of the pack
ing industry.
Mr.. Heney read telegram from
Thomas Z. Wilson, president of
Wilson & Co., in which Wilson,
then in New York, advised V. d.
Skipworth, his confidential agent in
Chicago, that Cotton had been
chosen, and that announcement
would be made to the public later.
"I had luncheon with him TODAY.
Wilson added in the message, which
he said should be treated as conf
dental. The message was dated sew
eral days before Cotton's appoint
ment was announced and was sent
over a private wire.
Confidential letters from the files
Of Swift & Co. also revealed that as
early as Oct. 7, four days before
Cottons appointment was an
nounced, he had been in Chicago
and held conference with Louis f.
Swift and his brothers in the di-
rectors' room at the Swift plant.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-25
SPEAKERS AND
AUTO OWNERS
ARE DRAF TED

The war savings stamp and thrift
card campaign committee on public
meetings has drafted a number Of
speakers and automobile owners to
aid in the effort to carry the cam
paign into every neighborhood in
Carter County.
This committee has issued the fol-
lowing statement:
Owing to the fact that the people
Of Carter County, Okla, are seek
ing information on the different
government campaigns, we, A. B.
Riddle, ]. B. Moore and J. B. Cham
pion, have been appointed as a COM
mittee by the United States gov
ernment to draft speakers and au-
tomobiles to successfully carry on
this campaign, that information on
the various subjects may he dissem-
mated to the public of Carter Coun-
ty, pertaining to the war. And we,
Continued on page o.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-25
GERMANS EXECUTE RED GUARDS BUN
RELEASE ALL RUSSIAN REGULARS As.
FAST AS THE UNITS ARE CAPTURED.
KAIsERs FORCES REsToE FAoULDER STRAPS TO
RUSSIAN OFFICERS , = MAKE RUSSIAN SOL
DIERS SALUTE tt : -FOUR POSITION is
HOPELESS -NlNE TELLS HIS
"OCIATES.

sive and unfortunate they might ap-
pear.
This peace must be accepted as
respite he continued, enabling
us to to prepare a decisive resist
ance to the bourgeoisie and impe-
rialism. The proletariat of the whole
world will come to our aid
Leon Trotzky, bolshevik foreign
minister, will not go to Brest Ii
toysk to sign the new peace terms,
nor will any Of the other members
Of the Russian delegation which
conducted the earlier negotiations
there, with the exception of NJ.
Karakhan secretary OF the foreign
delegation. The workmen'S and sol
diers' delegates today chose for the
new delegation NJ. Zinovett, presi-
dent of the Petrograd council OF
workmen's and soldiers delegates;
NJ. AleXief, acting commissioner OF
agriculture, and NJ Sokolkokoft.
This delegation, accompanied by
naval and military representatives,,
will leave tonight for BreSt Litovsk,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-25
.38 MANUFACTURING
CONCERNS IN GRIP
Of GOVERNMENT
LONG AND INTENSIVE PROBE
UNCOVERS ALLEGED DIS
HONORABLE ACTS.
.CUTTHROAT COMPETITION
Accused of Stealing Trade from
Competitors by Bribing Employees
and by Other Nefarious Methods
and Plots.

Washington, Feb. 25.-Complaints
charging unfair trade practices
were issued today by the Federal
Trade Commission against SO man
ufacturing firms as the result of a
long and intensive investigation
which has revealed very serious
and unhealthy conditions in GER
tain lines of industry" 1t was the
largest number of complaints ever
issued at one time by the commits
sion.
Thirty-iour of the complaints
were against varnish makers, three
against manufacturers OF printing
ink and one against a soap factory.
In addition, the commission has
granted the request of a number Of
other concerns which admitted the
practices complained of and asked
for consent orders 20 avoid pub
licity in having their affairs inves-
tigatcd. A large number of other
cases still are under consideration.
The 50 firms cited today were
given thirty days to reply and or
dered to appear for hearing April 8,
The Glidden Varnish Company
of Cleveland, Ohio, is charged with
attempting to stihe and suppress
competition by systematically and
on a large scale giving employees
OF customers, prospective custom
ers and competitors customers graf
uities such as liquor, cigars, meals,
theater tickets, valuable presents,
and entertainments. Secret pay
ments' also were alleged to have
been made to employees to influence
purchasers from the Glidden Var.
niSh Company or to stop purchases
from the company's competitors
Practically identical complaints
were issued against the other var
nish makers, including the Colum-
bus Varnish Company, Columbus
o.; Sun Varnish Company, Louis
vile; Lilly Varnish Company, In
dianapolis; Lindeman Wood Fin
ishing Company, Cincinnati; Frank
W. Thurson Varnish Company,
Chicago Grand Rapids Varnish
Company Louisville; O'Neil Oil
and Paint Company, Milwaukee;
Grand Rapids Wood Finish Com
pany, Grand Rapids; Pratt & Lam
bert Inc, Buffalo; Rockford Var
nish Company, Rockford, Ill.,;
Charles R. Long Jr. Company,
Louisville, Ault & Wiborg Company,
Cincinnati.
The Essex Varnish Company of
Newark, N. J., was charged with
having been guilty of the same
practices and in addition with hav-
ing paid employees large sums of
money to adulterate and spoil var
nish. lacquers and Japans' sold or
offered for sale by its competitors
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-25
WEATHER FORECAST

For Ardmore and Vicinity;
Tonight, cloudy; colder; freez-
ing. Tuesday, fair; colder.
Oklahoma: Tonight, cloudy;
colder; cold wave in western
portion with temperture % to 20
degrees; freezing in eastern por-
ton. Tuesday, fair; colder in
eastern portion.
East Texas; Tonight, cloudy;
colder in northern portion. Tues
day, fair; colder.
West Texas; Tonight, fair;
colder; freezing in northern por-
ton; cold wave in the Panhandle
with temperature 10 to Is de
grees. Tuesday, fair; colder in
southeastern portion.
Local Temperature.
Maximum temperature Sun
day. 95 degrees; minimum last
night, Of.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-25
.INCENDIARIES BUSY
At ARGENTA, ARK.
THREE FIRES IN NIGHT 49,
PREACHER AND FAMILY
HAVE NARROW ESCAPE.

Little Rock, Ark, Feb. 25.-Thrcc
fires believed to have been Of in
cendiary origin did heavy damage
early this morning in Argenta,
across the river from Little Rock.
Two negroes are reported to have
been burned to death and several
are known to be injured
The fires destroyed the clubrooms
of the Army Athletic Association.
4 garage with 50 automobiles, two
business buildings, a negro apart
ment house, and three dwellings.
The first fire broke out in the
negro apartment ouse at l:30 a.
m. The flames spread to the two
business buildings and the dwell
ings.
Persons on their way to the first
fire say that as they passed the club
rooms of the Army Athletic Asso-
citation they saw a light inside, At
2:35 the place was i'll flames.
At ) o'clock, persons living next
door to the First Methodist Church
started to the second fire when they
saw small fame burning at the
rear of the church building. They
hurried to the church and found the
building just catching fire and a
bottle of kerosene oil nearby.
After extinguishing the flames,
they aroused the pastor and his fam
lily who live above the church.
They detected strong odor OF
gas, and when they entered the
church found that all the gas jets
had been turned on without being
lighted
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-25

Washington, Feb. 25.-Denounc-
ing the bolshevist surrender to Ger
many, Senator McCumber, Repub-
lican, of North Dakota, told the
senate today that a "bolshevkii'
sentiment in America was of 70 less
danger to the cause of democracy
against autocracy. Prohteers, labor
slnckers and government officials
who fail to stand against them were
assailed by the senator in vigorous
terms.
Unless conditions change, the
senator declared, only a collapse of
the central powers can save the al
lies from defeat. The senator began
with a denunciation of the bolshev-
ist surrender.
Search the worlds history" de-
clared Senator McCumber, "and
nothing can be found even to ap-
proach this most damnable treach-
cry to the faithful and bleeding al
llGS-llllS DldIhCSl tlCdSOll W IOull-
try and national honor. For this ig-
nominoious surrender under boil
shevik reign, let every Russian pa
triot for a thousand years wear
branded on his cheek the blush of
shame.
with this spectacle OF national
impotency and disgrace before you,
and enlightened by the appalling
conditions in our shipyards, is it not
about time we were turning our at
tention to the bolsheviki doctrine
of those in our own country who
are paralyzing the arms of the gov
ernment and imperiling the lives of
our soldiers in France?
$50, too, we have seen the effect
of this bolsheviki sentiment, more,
still more, always more, regardless
of justice, regardless of patriotic
duty, in the shameful delay in ship
construction on which the very life
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-25
AMERICANS RAID
ENEMY LINE AND
TAKE PRISONERS

With the American Army in
France, Feb. "a (Sunday).-An
American patrol in the Chemin des
Danes sector, in conjunction with
a French patrol, early yesterday
penetrated a few hundred yards into
the German lines and captured two
German officers, % men and one
machine gun.
There was some sharp fighting
and a number of the enemy were
killed and wounded. There were no
American casualties. The Franco
American patrol was under com
mand of a French officer.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-25
ASSISTANT TO ATTORNEY
GENERAL Is TO RESIGN

Oklahoma City, Feb. 25.-J. l.,
Howard, who has been an assistant
attorney general for the last three
years, will resign his place there to
become law partner of S. H. Har-
ris of this city. This will become
effective March /. Mr.. Howard has
been one of the foremost assistants
i'll the attorney generals Office, hay
ing been assigned to the banking de-
partment's work. Attorney General
Freezing has not indicated who he
will name to take the place vacated
by Mr.. Howard.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-25
Capture Entire Staff.

Berlin, Feb. 25.-In Rovno the
whole staff OF the Russian special
army fell into the hands OF the
Germans.
Berlin adyices received in AM
sterdam, as forwarded by the Cen
tral News, report that a state of
siege has been proclaimed in con
sequence of events in Poland,' at
Czenstoochowa, Lodz and Nloc-
kayek, important towns in western
Poland.
Great unrest has been produced
mn Poland by the peace treaty ar
ranged between the Ukraine and
the Central Powers, under which
part of Poland was to be annexed
to the Ukraine.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-25
SWEDEN SEXES
ALAND ISLANDS

Petrograd, Teusday, Feb. 10, via
London, Thursday, Feb. 2l.-At
the bolsheyik headquarters confirm
alton is given that Swedish forces
have seized the Aland Islands. The
landing force was resisted stubborn
ly by the small garrison Of boil
sevik troops.
The forwarding OF Swedish troops
to maintain order in the Aland
islands was reported unofhcially
last week, although until the ar
rival of this dispatch, apparently de-
layed by censor, no announcement
had been received of the actual seiz-
ure of the islands. The Swedish
parliament yesterday adopted the
governments proposal for military
Intervention. Premier Eden said
the project was under an agreement
arrived at between the Swedish Red
Guard which is supported by the
Russians, and the White Guard,
Which is attempting to overthrow the
bolsheyiki. The Aland islands,
which formerly belonged to Sweden,
are populated largely by Swedes,
who have made several appeals to
Stockholm for protection and re-
turn of the islands to Sweden.