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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-07-23
KENT SENATOR
URGES RATIFICATION
Of NATIONS LEAGUE
BECKHAM SAYS GREAT COMMON
PEOPLE HAVE BEEN QUICK TO
FIND FLAW IN OPPOSITION.

Washington, July 22.-Speakng in
support of the peace treaty in the sen
ate today, Senator Beckham, democrat,
of Kentucky, urged early ratification
without reservations, declaring ma
jority of the American people favor a
trial in the hope that the League of
Nations will promote international con-
cord.
mo advocate of this document" Sena-
tor Beckham said, "can proclaim it per
feet. No idealist can safely promise
that it, beyond all doubt, removes the
possibility of war in the future. But
it at least comes to us with a promise
that if given a fair trial. if improved
where improvements may be found nee
essary later on, and if supported by the
civilized governments of the EARTH it
will certainly be tremendous advance
over all previous plans and one that
may in reality fulfill the dream of its
most enthusiastic advocates, world
wide and enduring peace"
Senator Beckham warned republican
leaders against making the League of
Nations a partisan question, declaring
it is one which "transcends all partisan
or personal issues"
THE great common people of this
country" said the Kentucky senator,
have seen with remarkable quickness
and precision that flaw in the argument
of the opposition which suggested no
substitute, which proposes no plan,
which offers no remedy to protect us
in any way whatever from the hideous
of war. They realize no instru.
ment of this kind can be at once framed
and promulgated without imperfections
or defects; but they are willing to try
it,"
Shantung Arguments Shallow.
Opposition to the treaty because of
the Shantung provision Senator Beck
ham characterized as one of the "shal
lowest arguments yet advanced"
at is one, however" he added, that
appeal is to sentiment, and the imagna-
ton of the opponents of the league
have not failed to play upon that fea
ture of it and to eXaggerate its import
ance in relation to the multitude of far
more vital problems which this treaty
to settle.
II think that under all of the circum
stances. the peace conference did the
best it could in regard to the Shantung
issue. Let Japan be given the oppor
tunity TO make good her promise to
right the wrong originally committed
BY Germany, before we undertake this
severe and proper criticism of her"
Senator Beckham said it was surpris-
ng that men of distinguished ability
should base their arguments on isolation
rs n means of national safety and geek
% solace us with the shattered delusions
hat we can maintain isolation or sepa-
alton from European quarrels however
,dious and abominable they may seem
o us"
Nor could article TO-" he continued,
operate to limit or annul the provi
'ions in our constitution which give
congress alone the right to declare war. |
We therefore do not need any reserva-
ion upon that article, but we have un-
Ter the league the protection contained |
n the requirement of a unanimous vote |
md the reservation which our constitu-
ion provides as TO the power of con
,ress to declare war"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-07-23
Weather Forecast

Oklahoma-Tonight fair. warmer
in extreme northwest portion; Wed
nesday fair in north and west por-
tions.
East Texas-Tonight and Wednes-
day generally fair in north, occa
sional local rains in south portion.
West Texas-Tonight and Wednes-
day generally fair. warmer in north
portion Wednesday.
Local Temperature
Maximum yesterday. SO degrees;
minimum last night, 72 degrees.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-07-23
ARTICLE 70 PILLAR
SECTION" Of LEA GUE,
SAYS SENATOR N NARY
OREGON REPUBLICAN OPPOSES
ANY RESERVATIONS IN REI.A.
TION TO THE TREATY.

washington, July 22.-SupportlnB
the League of Nations in senate
speech today, Senator McNary. repub-
lcan, Oregon. urged that it be accepted
without any such amendments as would
alter the splendid purposes OF the GOV.
enant or weaken it so far as It affects
our duties" The senate, said the speak
er, could without harm adopt certain
reservations in the form of interpreta.
tions," but should not endanger the
covenant by making reservations that
would vitality affect important features.
Article 10, he said, must be unmpaired
because it is "the pillar section" of the
league.
"Of the objections | take il that Ar.
ticle 10 IL the most obnoxious and pro
ductive of the most controversy" said
Senator McNary. "The statement most
generally made is that this article col.
lides with our constitution and runs
across the path of our sacred tradi.
tions. Repeatedly the argument has been
advanced that Article 10 casts upon this
government an absolute obligation to so
to war under any conditions however
bereft of Justice. The indictment. in my
opinion, is untenable.
by the force Of another article in the
covenant the council, in arriving at n
decision. will be governed by unanimous
vote, the power Of veto standing between
this country and an unwise remedy,
In no sense can the executive branch
of the government, aided by the senate,
cast any legal obligation upon this or
any future congres to pass a declara.
ton of war upon any nation. however
unjustly offending.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-07-23
50 AMERICANS KILLED
IN MEXICO IN 3 YEARS
AND NOBODY PUNISHED

Washington, July 22.-Henry p.
Fletcher American ambassador to Mex.
leo told the house rules committee to-
day that since his appointment three
years ago about so Americans had been
killed in Mexico without n single prose.
cution being made by the Mexican au.
thorities.
Replying to questions by Chairman
Campbell Ambassador Fletcher said
withdrawal of recognition of the Car.
rama government by the United States
would only increase the turmoil in the
southern republic. He added that he did
not know of any revolutionary leader
capable of establishing permanent gov.
ernment.
Ambassador Fletcher said he had
not noticed any special anti-Amercan
feeling in Mexico and explained that
the presence of more American citi-
zens there than other foreigners prob
ably accounted for the greater num-
Der Of outrages affecting Americans.
The ambassador was summoned be-
fore the committee in connection with
a resolution introduced by Represen-
tative Gould. republican. New York.
proposing appointment of a joint con
gressional committee to investigate re-
lations between this country and Mex
leo.
Mr.. Fletcher repeatedly declined to
express opinions upon conditions in the
southern republic. insisting that he
furnished only facts.
nj l,n oil I'm in
Mexico as improved in the last three
years." asked Chairman Campbell.
"Oh yes" was the quick reply.
I'm what respect?"
Columbus has not been raided,"
the ambassador answered
When Chairman Campbell called at
tention to the recent murder of an
American citizen and the maltreat-
ment of his wife in Mexico, the am
bassador said this did not involve rela-
tions between the United States and
Mexico.
Pressed further as to Improvement in
conditions in Mexico, the ambassador
said that, among Other things. agencies
by which the United States was better
able to transact business with Mexico
had been established during the past
three years.
Difficult to Identify Murderers
"Are the murderers of American cit
izens as numerous as they were." asked
Chairman Campbell. The ambassador
replied that he would refer the commit
tee to the list of Americans who had
been killed.
MANY of these outrages," Mr.. Fletch-
er said. "were committed by bandits.
These bandits have been pursued. but
it was difficult to tell if they got the
man who had committed the murder"
Representations in each case, he said,
had been made to the Carranza gov
which in turn communicated
with local authorities, who failed to take
action.
"And you don't recall one prosecu-
tion?" asked Chairman Campbell.
II don't at this time"
What excuse has been given in of
ficial circles for lack of arrests or pros
ecution?"
"They usually explained that the mur-
der had been committed by bandits and
that every effort would be made to run
down the bandits"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-07-23
Cites Supreme Court Ruling

"Those opposed argue that the Ian.
guage does not place important matters
of domestic concern, like immigration
and tariff, out of the jurisdiction of the
council or of the assembly. They pro
pose reservations eXempting the con
sideration of these matters from the
league. This action | think unneces-
sary, for the reason that the highest
tribunal in our land has decided that
by the rules of international law sub
jects of this kind are absolutely and ex
clusively within the jurisdiction of this
country. inherent as a right of sover.
eighty and therefore impossible of alien
alton by treaty.
Sharing the belief that our supreme
court has correctly stated the rule of
international law as applied to a ma
tion's international affairs, | can find
no serious complaint with a policy that
shall annex a resolution to the treaty
re defining an established doctrine of the
law of nations. This action of the SEN
ate, in my opinion, would not be an
amendment nor change of treaty in sub
stance requiring ratification"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-07-23
"The Pillar Section"

"The moral force in the obligation i'm.
posed upon the nations of the world in
my opinion, will do much to chill the
ambitious designs of nations that here.
tofore have been the cause of cruel
wars, and for that reason | shall op-
pose by my vote any eradication of AR.
ticle 10 from the covenant. 1t is the
pillar section of the association of ma
tons contemplated under the league
and is the assurance of mutual support
against any external aggression. 1t
speaks the voice of freedom among the
nations and guarantees to each its full
share of sovereignty. 1t makes pos
sible and encourages the reduction of
armaments. as no nation will disarm un-
less assured that tt will not be attacked
nv anOt her nation v
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-07-23
OUR VAULTS

Are at your disposal for the storing OF
household valuables while on that va
cation.
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Guaranty State Bank Of Ardmore.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-07
French Industry
Regaining Pre.War
Basis. Saws CasenuUe

MILWAUKEE, Wis. Sept. 6.-France
has "gone back o'work with a spirit
of virile courage, the spirit that brought;
recuperation so quickly after the war
Of 1870 and that paid an enormous debt
so quickly as 10 gain the admiration
Of the world" according to Maurice
Casenave, Minister Plenipotentiary
and Director General OF the French
Public Services, in an address here to-
day at the celebration of the anniver-
saries of Lafayette and the first battle
Of the Marne.
VI. Casenave, who spoke at the City
Club. said that the false legend Of "a
frivolous and corrupt France" which
Marshal Jofre had destroyed by the
victory of the Marne. had been sue
ceeded by an equally false legend, ad-
vanced by her enemies, that France
was bled white beyond the hope Of re-
suscitation. He declared the progress
made in his country ever since the
armistice was a proof that France
would arise from her present Affections
greater and stronger than ever.
Already, said the speaker, French in
dustries were utilizing, in water power
alone. 625,000 horsepower more than
before the war, and by 1921 the total
will have more than doubled that
amount. A rosy picture of French pros
perity, with increased outputs of met
ais, textiles, coal, potash and farm
products, was drawn by the speaker.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-07
Small Dutch Lad,
Marines Mascot,
Arrives on Liner
Red Cross Worker to Adopt
12.Year.Old, Wounded
and Cassed at Front; Lost
Parents at Dixmude

Ono Of the smallest and youngest
army mascots from overseas reached
here yesterday on the French liner
Chicago from Bordeaux. Tho young
ster Is Harry Gilman. . Dutch boy
who was with the Fifth Marines OF
the I'd Division throughout the period
Of their service In France.
Harry, who was born In Amsterdam
and Is scarcely twelve years DID, was
in German prison camp, was with
various units Of the British forces for
a year and . half and carried ammu-
milton and water for the marines FOR
more than two years. He was WOUNDED
and received gas burns. Miss Eva 4.
Sorensen, a Red Cross worker, whose
home is in Duluth, Mimi, brought the
veteran mascot over and will adopt
him as soon as the necessary legal
steps can be completed at Ellis Island.
In the first month of the war both
Harrv's parents we're killed at Dix
nude, in Belgium. They had come to
the city on q canal boat from Holland.
The youngster was interned by the
Germans with group Of civilians who
we're accused of being friendly to the
Belgians. After several months Harry
escaped with British civilians and was
carried along by various British units.
When the I'd Division arrived he was
taken up by the Fifth Marines and re-
maincd with them until after the arm
istice. Many high officers in the regi-
ment desired to adopt him, but were
unable to make the necessary arrange
ments. Two of the officers, major
and a lieutenant, later were killed.
Finally Miss Sorensen became his
guardian. When he arrived here yes
terday he was dressed In o regulation
officers uniform with a Sam Browne
belt and wore service and wound
stripes. His overseas cap bore the
Marine Corps emblem.
Young Gilman is sturdy little
fellow and speaks English fuently.
A group OF 447 Czecho-S -Slovak
veterans who left the United States
to 20 to war in 1917 arrived on the
Chicago, but could not leave the boat.
Meanwhile a large crowd OF friends
and relatives were waiting for them
on the pier with banb and fags OF
the United States and Czecho-
Slovaka. The soldiers who fought IN
France and later against the Hun
garian radical forces were to parade
to Sokol Hall in East Seventy-frst
Street, but the manifests regarding
their citizenship were improperly pre-
pared and they were not permitted to
land. One of the soldiers was Ser
geant John Menustik, formerly Of BIT
East Seventy-first Street. He wears
four decorations received from the
French and from the Czecho-S -Slovaks:
In all, the French steamer carried
TIA passengers, 296 in the cabin and
478 in the steerage. Among them was
DR.. J. Brasseur, Of Norway. Mich,
who was a captain in the Belgian army
medical corps for four years. lie was
wounded and gassed
New-York tribune., 1919-09-07
$1.OOO,OOO Aerial Line
Company Incorporated
California Corporation to Pro.
vide Pacific Coast Plane
Service
Special Corr,spOndence

Special Correspondence
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 6.-The incor-
poration Of new organization to pro-
mote and control aircraft transporta-
tion and known as the California, Great
Western and Interstate Air Route, was
announced to-day by X. J. Daum at a
meeting Of fifty business men at the
Athletic Club. The plan of the COM
pany. which is incorporated at s1,000,-
900. is to develop commercial aviation
throughout the West.
The company plans to promote. es-
tablish. maintain and operate chains
of various types of aircraft and landing
stations and will make every effort to
stabilize the air industry. Fields have
been selected and plans drawn for COM
plete landing stations at Los Angeles
San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento,
Phoenix, Yuma and other points. All
fields and landing stations are to be
standardized.
Offices and hangers costing from
s2,000,000 to $3,000.000 will be erected
on each field, according to the plans.
The home company is to sell the trans
portation and act as the central ad-
ministration. Dining car service will
be established on the air planes.
Routes are to be charted and marked
by lights and other devices.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-07
Ex.Assemblyman Is Held
In Case of Stolen Bonds

Clarence Donovan, a lawyer and for
mer Assemblyman living at 224 Keap
Street, Brooklyn, who was arrested last
week after two stolen $1,000 bonds had
Dcen posted as collateral for loans Of
$1,000 from Brooklyn banks. was held
under $500 bail for the grand jury
yesterday by Chief Magistrate Nc
Adoo, sitting in the West Side Court.
Donovan waived a hearing.
The charge against the lawyer was
preferred by Howard J. Bovine, a pub
Usher from whose Office at % Broad
way bonds aggregating $4,000 were
stolen last April by John Farrell, an
office boy. Farrell afterward returned
all the bonds except two. Farrell told
detectives he had given the two bonds
to John Honeyman, Of 5ls West Fifty
third Street. Honeyman said he had
sold the bonds to Donovan for $500
each.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-07
williamsburg Rent
Strike Settled by
Mayors Committee
Agreement Provides for
Total Advance of $3.50
Instead of $4,000; Re-
mains in Force 8 Months

The Williamsburg rent strike, which
assumed threatening proportions when
City Marshal Hugh Mcbride twice
failed to carry out writs requiring
eviction Of the 45o families involved,
was settled last night by the Mayors
Committee on Rent Profitcering.
The settlement provides that the
rents in the seventeen apartment
houses on Bedford Avenue, Flushing
Avenue and Wallabout Street, owned
by the B. F. W. Realty Company, shall
be raised a total Of $3.50 a month.
Six weeks ago the landlord attempted
to raise the rent $4,000.
A committee Of ten signed the agree
ment for the strikers and consented to
remove the pickets and tear down the
signs announcing the strike. Jacob
Fox and Oscar Englander signed for
the landlords.
Truce Checked Hostilities
II the strike had not been settled
the City Marshal intended to make one
more attempt tomorrow TO carry out
the writs Of eviction. When he tried
rounded the "schleppers" who had
them to leave. pleading that union men
should not try to break a strike.
Before the case reached the Mayors
committee it was heard before sew
eral justices Of the Municipal Count as
arbitrators. Early in the proceedings
the landlords came down $1,000 in their
demands. but refused to go further.
Friday afternoon the case was
brought before Captain J. J. Gold
smith, special adjuster Of the Mayors
committee. wno wrcstlcd with the
problem until IL o'clock at night and
then, hopeless, told the tenants and
landlords to 90 home. AS they stood
outside the Chambers Street entrance
Of the Municipal building they re-
newed the argument, and finally
reached tentative agreement, leaving
the details to be decided the next after
noon.
Yesterday the case was argued from
2:3O to 9:i5 p. m. before the agreement
was signed. The main difficulty in
yolyed the distribution Of the raise III
rent among the tenants.
The agreement will remain in force
for eight months, beginning Septem-
Der |. If the rent strike is renewed
the settlement is void
Rent Paid In Trust
Jacob Friedman, chairman OF the
tenants committee, carried with him 10
the conference $4,000 in small green
backs. the rent due on August l, which
the tenants had deposited in bank
under the control Of their strike COM
mittec. Captain Goldsmith received
the money in trust for the landlords to
be paid when the last signs OF trouble
have disappeared.
While the Williamsburg strike was
being settled serious rent troubles
broke out in The Bronx, when twenty
five strikers in apartment houses at
s56, s58, $50 and S62 Caldwell Avenue
were served with dispossess notices.
1t is alleged that they refused to pay
rents due on the first OF this month.
Notices to evict the tenants were is
sued in the I'd District Municipal
Court at the request of Morris Stahl,
lessee of the four houses, and become
effective tomorrow.
Posters are in the windows of the
four Caldwell Avenue houses declar-
ing: Eve are on strike"
New-York tribune., 1919-09-07
Building Brick" Dinner
To Launch Jewish Campaign

Jacob Schiff, Elk Warburg and .
number of prominent women will be
among the speakers at q building
brick" dinner at the Biltmore next
Sunday which will open the weeks
campaign to raise slO.OoO,oOo for the
United Building Fund Of the Federated
Jewish Institutions. 1t will be. the
briefest campaign for so large a sum
ever attempted in this country.
Among the women who are iormu- Mn.
lating plans for the campaign are MRS.
Henry Mo.kowitz, Of the State Recon-
struction Commission; Miss Rita Wei
man, playwright; Miss Hedwig- Reicher,
actress; Mrs. Henry Lehman and Mrs.
Ray F. Schwartz.
Other women who have been doing
work for the fund are Mrs. Jacob II.
sehia. Mrs: Felix NJ. .,I Warburs' cNds Mrs'
Sydney c. Borg. Mrs, Alfred A. CooD'
Guggenheim, Mrs. Arthur Lehman and
Mrs. n. L. Morgenthau.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-07
Wife Says Sailor Cruised
Into Bigamy With Nurse

Michael Findley, a former sailor in
the navy, living at 1869 Bushwick Ave
nue., Brooklyn, whose wife charged him
with bigamy after she had read an in
tercepted letter, WAS held yesterday
under 81 900 bail for examination Tues
day. Mrs. Mary Rice Findley. Of 1880
De Kalb Avenut, Brooklyn, said she
married the former sailor six years
ago, day after they had met in Phila-
dclphia A year ago, she said, her
husband met Mary Perry, stenogra-
pher. while a patient in the Hudson
Street Hospital. She charges he mar
risd Miss Perry two days after he had
told his wife ne had rcen!isted and was
off for q cruise.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-07
A Soldier Says

SsNEILITARY parades are all right
IVA II ono is . spectator; but think
Of tho bass drummer, banging away
for six hours on the march" signs
Walter B. Granular. Of the 2Sth IN
fantry, 1st Division. THAT will Do
my job next Wednesday, and Am not
looking forward to Il with much pleas
ure."
During tho war Private Granular
was member Of Company a: Instead
0 In bass drum he carried r,ne.
"The cd yarn about the drummer boy
leading TIE way into battle Is good
listening. he says, but It doesn't work
out that way in war. It was after the
srm,sticc was s.gned that We organ,
tied our band. A hundred OF as VIII
be 81 the dock to greet General Per
shinR when he arrives. After that the
big parade. snd then discharge and
home"
he has been ip the service for two
years ard has taken part IN three
major ofyensives. As soon a. he gets
back TO his home In Cleveland, Private
GRANULAR expects TO bury his bass
drum and take = long vacation.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-07
Washington Hears Nothing
About % Soldiers Killed

WASHINGTON, Sept. s.--No reports
received from Siberia by the War De-
partment or the State Department con-
tain confirmation Of the dispatch from
Toxic that twenty-threc American SOL
diers recently were killed in an en-
gagement in the hinterland Of Vladi-
vostok.
Army officials believe the reported
casualties were confused with the
deaths resulting from an engagement
the American forces had several
months ago, when tho total casualties
we're less than twenty.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-07
Standard HOME STUDY Courses

Accounting Business Civil Service. Secre-
tariai, salesmanship. Ask FOR Bulletin
9. c." Emerson Extension last. 33l 6th Az.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-07

"If ever the enemy changes. under
stands and confesses not from the lips
New-York tribune., 1919-09-07
Officers Follow Blood Trail;
Arrest Italian for Murder

Following a trail of blood eight
blocks from the scene OF q fight at
Tillary and Prince Streets, Brooklyn,
detectives yesterday found Dominick
Trappani leaning against tree weak
from knife wounds and arrested him
on charge of having killed Frank
Keenan,, eighteen, of 1902 Decatur
Street. keenan, had been stabbed in
the leg. The knife severed an artery
and he bled to death while @ number
Of youths fought around him.
The fight is said to have been the
result of Keenan's persistence in "kid-
ding" Trappani. who sat near Keenan,
and a party of friends in theatre.