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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-24
CORN GROWERS
IN UGLY MOOD
THREATEN TO ABANDON
PLANTING UNLESS PRICE
is RAISED.

Washington, March 23.-Wheat
receipts at mills have fallen from
100000 bushels to 100000 bushels
a week within the last month, ac-
cording to figures received by gov
ernment agencies. The decline is
ascribed to the desire to hold wheat
for higher prices, which would be
obtained if congress passes bill
now pending to increase the price
Of wheat to $3.50 a bushel.
Corn growers have written the
food administration threatening &c
abandon the planting Of corn for
the sowing of wheat, unless the corn
price also is raised and fixed. Food
administration officials regard the
situation as serious since a great
decline in the corn acreage possibly
might result in a tremendous de-
crease in hogs and other meat ami
mails.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-24
SWEDEN FEARS
COMING EVENTS
NEW SITUATION IN BALTIC
MENACES THE SCANDI-
NAVIAN PEOPLE.

Stockholm, Thursday March 2l.
Premier Eden speaking yesterday
at llcnkocping on the new and
grave problems facing Sweden
through the complete transforma-
ton of the situation in Baltic de-
clared the government would main
tain a policy OF unshakeable neu-
trality.
With entrance to Finland and the
Aland Islands into the questions,
the premier said, the Finnish gov
ernment had repeatedly requested
arms and ammunition from Sweden
and Swedish military Intervention
in the civil war. Sweden has been
obliged to refuse the requests i'll
order to avoid being dragged into
the war.
The request for Intervention, con-
tinued the premier, came to both
Sweden and Germany. Germany re-
sponded to the call and would not
allow herself to be displaced. Swe-
den might have pursued the same
policy, he said, had she chosen to
participate in such dangerous
game.
The premier alluded to negotia-
tionS to secure million tons oI
goods from Great Britain against q
transfer Of tonnage, and regarding
this he said that Sweden must limit
that transfer as much as possibl,
and safeguard sufficient tonnage To-
her own imports and exports.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-24

London, March 23.-"The battle
is continuing with the greatest in
tenSity on the whole front south OF
the Scarpe River Field Marshal
Iaig's report tonight announces.
South and west OF St. Quentin
our troops have taken up their new
positions and we are heavily en-
gagged with the enemy, During the
night strong hostile attacks in the
neighborhood of Jussy (south of St.
Quentin were repulsed with great
loss to the enemy.
"On the northern portion of the
battle front, the cnemy's attacks
have been pressed with the utmost
determination and regardless OF
losses. Our troops maintained their
positions on the greater part of this
front after a fierce and prolonged
struggle"
Great gallantry has been shown
by the troops engaged in the fight
ing in this area and south thereof.
The Nineteenth and Nineticth diyi-
sions distinguished themselves by
the yalor OF their defense. In one
sector alone six hostile attacks in
two of which German cavalry took
part were beaten off by one Of our
brigades.
The enemy's attacks continue
with great violence
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-24
JORDAN BRIDGED
BY BRITISH ARMY
TROOPS ADVANCING EAST
WARD AND FIGHT AS
THEY GO.

London, March 23.-The British
in Palestine have forced a passage
OF the River Jordan bridged the
stream and established themselves
on the east bank. They afterwards
advanced eastward against consid-
cradle opposition and are continuing
their operations, according to the
official report announcing the cross
ing. The statement reads;
In the early hours of Friday our
troops effected a passage of the Jor-
dan despite the strong current. The
river was then bridged and passed
by our forces, which established
themselves on the left band and
made progress eastward, encounter
ing considerable resistance.
The operations are continuing.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-24
FOUR MINUTE MEN
BOMBARD COUNTY
SPEAKERS GO TO EVERY RU-
RAJ SCHOOLHOUSE To-
DAY AND TONIGHT.
rs AUTOMOBILES OUT
Forenoon, Afternoon and Night En-
gagements Being Filled in All
Parts of the County-Plans for
April Celebration.

Beginning at 1880 o'clock this
forenoon -Four Minute Men from
Ardmore will lombard Carter coun-
ty with the message of the third
liberty loan. twenty-five care will
leave Ardmorc during the forenoon
Transporting speakers to their ap-
pointments. Some OF the speakers
have four and five appointments TO
fill, but most of the trips are for the
purpose OF speaking at 1880 o'clock
this forenoon, 2:3O this afternoon
and 7:5O tonight. In nearly every
instance the speakers, two and three
in each car, will go to the farthest
appointment first and work their
way back toward the city, making
their night engagements at the point
nearest town.
The meetings will be held in the
rural schoolhouses and when it is
remembered that there are sixty
eight school districts in the county
and several districts in which there
are more than one schooihouse, an
estimate OF the large undertaking
contracted in covering the county
inc one day can be gained. Andrew
B. Riddle, chairman OF the -Four
Minute Men Of Carter county;
George w. Coftman, county super
intendent Of schools, and Col. sid
ney Suggs arranged the appoint
ments.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-24
Offensive By Enemy
Greatest Gamble In
History Of World

that its failure will mean the end
OF the war. The Times says
Germany evidently is resolved
to stake all her chances on the
western front, and adds:
She has committed herself to
the greatest gamble in history.
We believe she will fail, and it
is precisely because the failure
of the present attack must react
disastrously upon Germany that
we derive encouragement from
the military position as it is dis
closed today
The Morning Post cautions
the nation to keep a cool head
and allow no plausible argu-
mentation upon scanty facts to
persuade it to premature CON
clusions.'
The Manchester Guardian
says:
al the Germans persist in at
tacks and lose they will have
lost the war;
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-24
Outcome of Battle Is
Worrying The Teutons

"a conciliatory peace in every sense.
What will happen after the battle,
what will develop, what the future
holds in store cannot now be de-
termined."
The Arbeiter Zeitung, Socialist or
gan of Vienna, says;
"What can be the reason for the
strong language of the German mil
itary leaders which contradicted so
openly that OF Count Won Hertling
Naturally this reason, the German
people will not know. 1t suifices to
tell them that new great feat OF
arms is to be attempted in the west
And it is thus that millions of men
are to be led into a battle such as
! the world has never known"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-24
GERMANS FORCE FORWARD
ON TWENTY MILE FRONT
Claim of a Beaten British Army
Not True.

Assaulting the British lines on the
south, the Germans have forced
their way forward over a front ap-
proximately q miles in length, have
penetrated to a depth OF four or five
miles west of Cambria and have
reached Ham, west of St. Quentin,
distance OF about nine miles west
of the British lines as they stood
before the inception of the Teutonic
offensive on Thursday.
The Germans claim that the
forces OF the central empires are
fighting on a line northeast OF Ba-
paume, Peronne and Ham has not
been substantiated by British official
dispatches, but the British reports
show that there has been a retire
ment at various points, especially at
st. Quentin where Field Marshal
EIaig says his forces have taken up
their positions and are heavily en-
gagged with the enemy.
According to Berlin official dis
patch, "a considerable part OF the
British army has been beaten" but
this is not borne out by any facts.
That 25,000 men have possibly
been captured by the Teutons may
be considered as a natural result OF
the slow British withdrawal on va
rious parts of the line. This num-
Der, however, is very small in com
parison to the forces Haig has
thrown into the fray.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-24
PLANNING FOR CELE-
BRATION APRIL 9TH

Plans are now being laid for a
celebration in Ardmore Saturday,
April 3, the first anniversary Of the
declaration Of war, which will rival
the meeting of war workers recent
/ yheld in Oklahoma City. The COM
mittee is endeavoring to procure a
speaker of national reputation and
hopes to secure former President
Taft.
Writ Franklin and Sam Apple
made a trip to Fort Worth in an
endeavor to secure Company T.,
11lth Engineers, the "Ardmore com
pany,' to participate in parade in
the forenoon.
They have taken the matter up
with officials at Washington and
hope tosecure the engineers and 4
fleet of aeroplanes.
The plan is to have war workers
and others in Carter and adjoining
counties here on that day, and all
fraternal and labor organizations
are are to join in the parade and
demonstration led by the Ardmort
Chamber Of Commerce band. In
the afternoon during the parade tht
stores and business houses of The
city will be closed inorder that ev
erybody may participate in the pa
| -ade aud demon ration
Reports are coming in from vari
GUS parts OF this county,as we'll 4,
the adjoining counties, indicating
that this plan is meeting with heart!
cooperation, and that the demon
stration will undoubtedly be one o
the biggest events in the history o
the city. April s is the date OIL
which the campaign Tor the thirt
liberty loan will be launched. Re
cent developments at the front indi
cate the necessity for everybody il
America cooperating in the worl
to be done at home or the work owe
there. America has launched it
greatest liberty loan in the histor
of this country, and ii those VIII,
remain at home fail they cannot ex
pect the boys to be successful over
seas. An efficient army on this sid
of the waters will be just as muc
factor in the prosecution of tn
war as the army of soldiers that ha
crossed over, and the success OF th
launching of the campaign in thi
part of the state will depend large
= y upon the success of the Ardmor
, celebration.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-24

Washington, March 25.-French
official dispatches reaching here to-
day represent the German and Aus
trian press as taking varying views
of the offensive.
The German Munchener Neuste
Nachrichten is uoted as saying
I'VE know from several months
experience what it means for us and
for our enemies. This encounter is
the struggle for definite victory"
The Austrian Neue Freie Presse
says:
mo one can predict with certain
ty the results OF the battle and its
consequences, and this circumstance
is capable of creating conditions for
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-24


British A. my Headquarters in
France, March 23.-Thc Germans
seem to intend to put all their avail
able strength into the present as
sault and fresh troops constantly
are appearing.
The fighting yesterday was of the
most sanguinary character, and the
enemy continued to lose great num-
bers of men through his system Of
massed attacks. That does not mean
that the British have not suffered
casualties. Their losses, however,
lre much smaller than those OF
.heir opponents.
The visibility became excellent
yesterday and the whole battle
front was turned into a veritable
hell with the artillery action, as the
unprecedented concentration OF
guns on both sides turned loose
their freight of death.
The operation is so vast and i,
changing with such Kaleidoscope
rapidity as the line surges backward
and forward that it is impossible to
visualize the scene sufficiently to
give a connected and accurate ac-
count of it at present.
Forty-nine German divisions have
been identified thus far on the battle
front and prisoners have been taken
from eighteen OF them.
Some estimates place the number
Of German divisions engaged as high
as ninety, but it is impossible to say
whether this is accurate.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-24

London, March 23.-The at
tention OF all England was cen
tered today on the western
front. There was no boastful-
ness, but the feeling was one of
supreme confidence and pride in
the army which stands on the
first line OF defense between
democracy and autocracy.
The newspapers warn against
undue optimism. But they point
out that the fighting instinct
still lives in the British breast,
Notwithstanding the long years
Of peace and ignorance OF mill
tary training and that when that
fighting instinct dies the world
will see the death OF the British
nation.
Since it has developed that
this is indeed the great herald
ed German offensive, the most
colossal struggle in the worlds
history, the public and the press
are unanimously of the opinion
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-24
Manufacturer Is Arrested.

Philadelphia, Pa, March 23-
Frederick Schubert, vice president
and general manager of the United
States Gauge Company, was arrest
ed by federal agents at Sellersville,
Pa, today in connection with the
alleged conspiracy to defraut the
government by furnishing defective
high pressure gauges for water tor
pedoes. This makes the fourth cx-
ecutive of the company taken into
custody. Schubert, who is i'll, agrees
through his counsel to furnish $5,-
600 bail.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-24
KAISER PLANS TO
SACE|F|CE 100000
LIVES IN BATTLE
THIS VIEW HELD IN WASH
INGTON AS GREAT CON-
TEST PROCEEDS.
U.S.. OFFICERS CONFIDENT
See No Ground for Assuming That
Allied Resisting Power Would
Prove Unequal to Task-Germans
Stake All on This Conflict.

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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-24
CARTER WINS
LONG FIGHT FOR
COAL LAND SALE
(By Omer X. Benedict)
(The Worlds Washington Core
spondent.)

SpOndcnt.)
Washington, March 23.-The Tul-
sa World tomorrow will say:
Franklin X. Lane, secretary of the
interior, has advised Charles Car
ter, congressman from the third
Oklahoma district and chairman OF
the house committee onIndian al
fairs, that appraisement of the Choc-
taw-Chickasaw segregated coal lands
in Pittsburg, Coal, Atoka, Latimer,
LeFlore and Haskell counties, Okla
homa, will be made Immediately, and
the work rushed so that the sale
can take place about August |.
The opening of this mammoth
Oklahoma coal deposit for develop
ment will prove a great boon to the
state. In all there are 445,000 acres
and less than one-eighth of it has
been mined. 1t is to be sold to the
highest bidder in tracts OF 900 acres
each, payments to be made in four
annual installments. About l0l ,00C
acres are under lease, and being de-
veloped and coal has been mined ir
this section of Oklahoma since 1871
The act of June /, 1902, withdrew
the remainder of the land from
lease, and the act OF 1905 withdrew
it from sale, and since that time NJ
additional development has beer
made.
The land was appraised few
years ago to the value of $l2,800,00I
but conservative estimates place III,
value considerably more than tha
figure. 1t is estimated that the sur
face vein OF this coal will yield al
average of 1000 tons to the acre, o
a total OF almost two billions @
tons. There is a second vein run
ming through most of the trac
which is very productive. When
Continued on page p
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-24
Kaiser Commands In
Person Report Says

London, March 23.-Dispatches
from Berlin say the German en-
peror is in personal command on
the western front.
This announcement is regarded as
further evidence that the emperor
has staked his all on an offensive,
hoping to win and 60 down in his
toryp as the victor in this great and
decisive world conflict.
Dispatches from Amsterdam pic
ture the emperor at Spa, Belgium
which is being kept isolated on a
radius of fifteen kilometres. The
German crown prince, Field Mar
shal Won Hindenburg. General Vor
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-24
SUSPECTED SEA RAIDER
TAKEN BY AMERICANS

A Pacific Port, March 25.--Two
women prisoners of war are aboard
the auxiliary schooner Alexander
5Agassiz, which is being towed to
this port by a United States cruiser
on suspicion that she was starting
Jon a cruise possibly as German
raider, according to naval officers
There today. The schooner was cap
tured off Mazatlan last Tuesday.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-24
IRISH DELEGATES
MAY SOON AGREE

London, arch 25.-The newspa-
pers are taking an optimistic view
concerning the Irish convention.
Chairman Plunkett will prepare a
report OF the work of the grand
committee for presentation April I.
An official statement says that deci-
sions have been arrived at on all
material points.
The Westminster Gazette remarks
that public hopes should not be too
high, since there are many stages
andpitfalls between a draft of a re-
port and final settlement.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-24
MARINE CORPS
CALLS FOR MEN

Denver, Colo, March 25.-The
local marine corps recruiting station
received instruction from Washing
ton today to enlist additional men at
once. Previously the recruiting sta
tion has been permitted to take in
only four men week.
The new instructions permit inn
mediate enlistment of a total OF 2,2OO
men from the states of Colorado and
Wyoming, over which the local sta
ton has jurisdiction.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-24
Russian Peace Envoy Arrested

Stockholm, March 23.-The Dag
bladt says that M. Kamenef, who
was one Of the Russian representa-
tiyes at the first peace negotiations
at Brest-Litovsk, has been arrested
by the Germans. He was on his
way to Petrograd and was arrested
on arriving at the Aland Islands.
M. Kameneif was last reported in
London on his way to Paris as boil
sheviki plenipotentiary to France.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-24
AMERICAN FLIERS
DROP ENEMY PLANES,
PARIS DISPATCH SAYS

Washington, March 23.-Two
American flyers are named in dis
patch from France today as bring
ing down German airplanes. Lieu
tenant Larner downed a German in
the Champagne region, and Cor
poral Bayles brought down one near
Courtecon.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-24
RUMANIA SEEKS ALLIANCE
WITH HUN, is CLAIM

Amsterdam, March 25.-Vienna
newspapers state that the new Ru-
mania premier, Alexander Markhil-
oman, is striving for an alliance be-
tween Rumania and the central pow
ers. The idea is being discussed
"sympathetically' in the Vienna
press, says a dispatch from that city.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-24

Ludendorff and other prominent
Germans also are reported there
with him.
London, March ga letter to
the Daily Dispatch which is under
stood to have access to sources OF
information not generally available
to the press, says:
ut is in the region of st. Quen-
tin and southwest of that city that
the enemy advance is most serious.
1t is here also that he is making his
biggest effort, presumably because
the junction of the British and
French armies is i'll this neighbor-
hood,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-24
WEATHER FORECAST

Oklahoma-Sunday and Mon
day fair, slowly rising tempera-
ture.
East Texas-Sunday and Mon
day generally fair, slowly rising
temperature in the interior.
West Texas-Sunday and Mon
day fair, warmer in north por-
ton.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-24
PARIS SHELLED
FROM DISTANCE
OF "A MILES?
LONG-DISTANCE ENEMY GUN
IS LOCATED, IS FRENCH
REPORT.
WASHIN GTON SURPR RISED
Some U. S. Army Officers Even
Questioned That Shells Had Fall
en- on Paris-Enemy May Have
Evolved New Type Rifle.

Paris, March 23.-According to
the latest reports, the long distance
cannon which bombarded Paris this
afternoon was firing from a distance
of 100 kilometres approximately
"a IL miles) and was located about
twelve kilometres behind the
French front.
Washington, March 24-The long
range bombardmcnt of Paris by
gun presumably sixty-two miles Off
announced as a fact today in the
French capital, dumfoundcd Amcri-
can ordnance officers.
The twenty-milc bombardment of
Dunkirk by the Germans more than
year ago had set a record, and
ordnance officers of the American,
British and French corps freely con-
ceded they never had dreamed of a
monster gun with range OF more
than thirty miles.
Some officers frankly questioned
that shells from rihled cannon actu-
ally had fallen in Paris. Others
sought explanation in new devices
or secret gun emplacementS in the
vicinity Of Paris. None wanted to
believe that any gun had been in
vented by the Germans or anyone
else which could throw a 9 1-2-inch
projectile sixty miles.
If the German experts have
evolved a wholly new type of gun
not dependent upon the same math-
ematicaI factors that govern ord
nance everywhere, officers here
think it highly unlikely that they
would employ it for an isolated and
meaningless attack on Paris.
Would Scare France.
1t might be, some officers thought,
that continuous dropping of me
dunn calibre shells on the city was
part of a hope for breaking the
spirit of France by some mysterious
visitation.
The finding of shell fragments
bearing the marks OF gun rihing
seemed TO preclude the idea OF any
ordinary airplane bomb. 1t was
suggested that monster airplaneS
mounting guns might have been
used, but no one conceived the pos
sibility of carrying a 9 l-2-inch
weapon in the air. A short range,
lightweight inverted howitzer car
ried by aircraft appeared to some as
possible explanation.
Bombardment of Paris at a dis
tance OF siXty-two miles appeared to
most of the ordnance officers as such
5 complete surprise that they found
t it difficult to talk about it.
e Another theory advanced was that
! the shells might have been fired
e from a French or English gun
seized by traitors or mutineers. 1t
2 would not be at all impossible, ac-
} cording to those who suggested the
r explanation, for a squad of mutt
1 neers to have seized a single gun
emplaced in some isolated spot.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-24
GuNBOAT SMITH TO FIGHT,

Atlanta, Ga, March 23.-Gunboat
Smith and Milly Miske, heavy
weights, have signed articles for a
ten round bout here on April /,
it was announced today.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-24
ITALIAN GENERALS CHANGE

ROME, March 22,--General Al
fieri has retired as minister Of war
to take command at the front. He
has been succeeded by General Zu-
pelli.