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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-02

Londan, May AL Irish workers ex-
cept those in the northern part of the
island have entirely ceased work today.
The railroads, shops. factories and
other Industries are closed down in com.
pliance with the order from the power
iul Transport Workers Union.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-02
Arrivals of Troops
And SaiIings From
Points In Europe

Newport News, No.. May 1.-The
transport Koningen der Nederlanden
arrived this morning from France with
2,2G3 Officers and men, including many
Of the rainbow division. On the Konin.
gen were the 1l7th ammunition train
evacuation ambulance company IL;
evacuation hospital IS; 1l4th engineers
headquarters and army ambulance sec.
tions, 542, $50, $50, sol, and 6O3.
New York. May From Bordeaux,
2,O52 troops arrived on the steamship
Henry Il. Mallory. These included the
3O9th field ygnal battalion complete,
Saith division national army Indiana
and Kentucky 3O4th, 332nd and 3S7th
tank corps complete. 11th, 2Oth and SO
aero squadron and 25th evacuation hos
pital.
New York, May Fifty three Off
GERS and 1,412 men of the 2Sth divis
ion, former national guard of Pennsyl-
vania arrived here today on the steam
ship Finland. from st. Nazaire. The
Finland brought altogether $500
troops, including the 23rd. 46th. and
Goth base hospitals, and End and 10th
convalescent camps and wounded and
casuals.
Washington, May AL organiza-
tions of the S9th division 0iansas, Mis-
souri,, South Dakota, Colorado, New
Mexico and Arizona) most of the oath
and 54th engineers and all of the 52nd
engineers have been assigned to early
convoy, it was announced today.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-02
RAINFALL ALMOST
AN EVEN BREAK

The Ardmore government observ-
er reports that the rainfall for the
present year to this date has been
9:24 inches. Last year covering the
same period it totaled 927 inches.
In months the record is as follows:
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-02

New York May with the discov-
cry and Illustration of a nationwide
bomb conspiracy here yesterday against
the i IS Of many prominent Americans,
every agency Of the federal and muni-
cipal government was at work today
not only in an attempt to trace the au-
thors of the terrorist plot. but to guard
against the reds boast of a country
wide surprise on May-day."
Members of New York IS famous
bomb squad" under the direction Of
Inspector Faurot, and hundreds of de
teotives watched the haunts of every
known radical here. and it was intimat-
ed by the police that before night there
would be n general roundup Of eXtrem-
lists of all types in this city and sub
urbs.
While 3j bombs have been delivered
or Intercepted in various cities-all APP
ptlreutly mailed from New York in iden-
teal parcel post packages-lostmaster
Patton said
The likelihood that other Internal
machines win be brought to light in the
next - hours does not comfort me.
This is absolutely appalling
The postmaster said that evidently
the packages were mailed with a view
of reaching the addresses on or about
May l. This is indicated by the fact
that parcels reaching the Pacific coast
bear the postmarl April 2$ Those de-
tained here were put into the mails
April 2G"
MI POstmasters Warned
oil pa t,1pl-1 iHpDtifit-I
were sent from New York. the postal
authorities believe others may have
been sent from other cities and post
masters throughout the country have
been warned to watch for suspicious
parcels.
The police today made further eX-
aminations of the 60 packages found in
the general postoffice yesterday, where
they had been held for three days be-
cause of insufficient postage. The
bomb experts worked six and a half
hours in opening one of the packages
owen Egan, an authority on Internal
machines, expressed establishment at
the ingenuity of the cotrivance
1T does not resemble any machine
I have ever come across he said. 1t
is the noatest. and from the standpoint
of mechanical arrangement the clever
est have ever seen. Whoever per
fected this thing must have been an
expert mechanic and chemist"
The packages. in size and shape are
suggestive of a biscuit package. Mem
bers of the firm of Gimbe Brothers re-
iterated today that the printed wrap
pers on the packages purporting to
come from this store were faxed
Examination of the typewriter ad-
dress Is on the packages indicated, ac-
cordng to the police, that they were
made on the same typewriter There |
Were a number of misspellngs.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-02
Weather Forecast

Oklahoma: Tonight and Friday
generally cloudy. probably local
showers.
East Texas: Tonight and Friday
cloudy, warmer in extreme east
portion and on west coast tonight.
West Texas: Tonight and Friday.
partly cloudy. warmer in southeast
portion tonight.
Local Temperature
Maximum yesterday. 10 degrees;
minimum last night, 81 degrees.
Total rainfall for April, 3.14 inches.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-02

Our officers invite you to open a Sav.
ings Account In this institution and
deposit therein those small sums that
are so apt to slip through the fingers"
GUARANTY STATE BANK
Ardmore, Oklahoma
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-02
Garter for the Bonds

Following Governor Robertson's talk,
Mr.. Ramsey introduced Congressman
Carter, who, referring to Mr.. Robert
sons statement that he had not heard
from Mr.. Carter as to his position on
the subject. stated emphatically that
he was in favor Of the bonds. He took
occasion TO answer some of the criti-
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-02
Good

VICTORY LOAN
CAMPAIGN
April 22nd
Help to Finish the Job
GUARANTY STATE BANK
Ardmore, Okla.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-16

is able to get direct shot at you from
behind. This is decidedly dangerous, and
So watching carefully over your shoulder
and estimating the moment he will open
lire you turn your machine quickly so as
to fly at right angles to him. His bullets
Will generally pass behind you during the
man@uvre. The next thing to do is to
turn facing him and open with your cross
fire
I'm hghtng in company with other ma
c1lnes OF your own squadron you must be
very careful to avoid collisions. and if is
therefore, necessary to watch all of them
carefully, we'll as the enemy machines.
1t is code Of honor to help out anv com
rade who Is in distress, and no matter how
Serious the consequences may seem. there
Is only one thing to do~dash straight in
and at least lend moral support to him. +
knew captain out OF my own squadron, n
New Acalandcr, who came eight miles across
the !lncs after both his guns had chokod.
rendering him entirely useless as a fighting
unit, just to try to bluff away seven Of the
enemy who were attacking mo- 1t was un
necessary in this case, as had the upper
hand of the few machines that were really
'N''""" "po"I 'iie hSHl, DuI IL was a tre-
mendously brave act on his part as he ran
every risk of being killed. while absolutely
helpless to defend himself in any way.
"All fights vary slightly in the tactics
required and it is necessary to think
quickly and act instantly. Whore large
number of machines are engaged one great
point is always to be the upper man; that
is, to be slightly higher than your par
ticular opponent. IT, as is often the case,
New-York tribune., 1919-03-16
Like MarrieS Like

the same occupation. Of course they marry
these men. This inevitable sequence causes
no astonishment.
To-day the most attractive as we'll as
the strongest and most vigorous women are
in industry. Their presence has been ac-
cepted and the taboo has been removed
The result is that men are now marrying
the women whom they meet in their work
The tremendous proportions Of this move
ment are of startling and far reaching sig
nifcance.
"The data were derived from the books of
the Marriage License Bureau in City Hall
in Philadelphia. All licenses in the avail
able books were used. They include practi-
cally all licenses issued in Philadelphia for
the three years from June, 1913, to June.
1916. The numbers run from 299,75S to
322,58 and from 332, sol to 100000 and
from 341 4O1 to 355,367.
"The grouping of occupations of the
United States census was used in prelim-
mary study of a thousand cases. Of these
thousand cases Sal women worked and of
these 275, more than half, married men in
the same occupation. OF the thousand men
more than 25 per cent married into their
own occupation.
"a supplementary investigation was
made of statistics of Bryn Mawr aumne
1t was found that about 90 per cent of the
married alumna had married college grad
yates. More than 60 per cent of them
married men in professions
"Where men and women are employed
together in like positions, each profession
or specialized occupation is the natural
breeding place for people of the type of
ability required. This situation must be
recognized both by those who believe in
heredity and by those who favor environ
ment. Sex propinquity in modern indus
try seems destined to affect the matngs
and through the matings the type of the
coming generations
New-York tribune., 1919-03-16
Another Ferry

THE establishment of steam ferry
- service between England and Swe-
den is being proposed by the Board of
Trade OF Newcastle-on-T Tyne, reports
"Finansbladet." Of Copenhagen.
The ferries would connect Gothenburr.
the big Swedist seaport. with either Hull
or Newcastle, according to the plans. A
daily service has been suggested.
Before the war steam ferries were the
principal means Of communication be-
tween Germany on the one hand and
Denmark and Sweden on the other.
inosc ferries could carry, beside pas
ssngers and loose cargo, loaded railroad
frsins consisting Of dozen Or more cars.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-16
Fancy That!

WHETHER or not rainbow before
w sunrise has any portentous mean
ing one might hesitate to decide. Yet
surely it is happening so unusual as to
merit notice. The following interesting
description of one appears in a letter
to the editor of "The English Mechanic
and World of Science:
This morning, at $3.50 O'Clock. G. M
witnessed the unusual spectacle of a rain
bow before sunrise. heavy shower com
ing up from the northwest, a brilliant how
appeared. AS / thought the sun could not
be as yet above the horizon, / went to LOOK
TO the southeast, and sure enough the suns
dlsk was not visible from the first floor
windows. On going upstairs, however.
could see about one-third of the sun lust
showing above the horizon. The differences
IN height would be about IA feet The RAIN.
bow was very brilliant and the arc visiblv
exceeded $50 degrees. Owing to obstruct
ing trees l could not quite see whether the
feet of the bow reached the north horizon.
The southeast horizon was clear, and strip
Of clear sky about 10 degrees in breadth
enabled the sun to shine immediately he
appeared above the horizon. Clear south.
east horizons have several times enabled mo
to watch tho first peep of the suns disk
during the last month, and ones l sav .
feeble green dash.'"
-
New-York tribune., 1919-03-16

The major, being very busy, gives a
grunt, but motions to an orderly:
'I believe there are two old masks
left over. Better too many precautions
than not enough"
And Claudinet, much elated, goes
away with his two masks
He shuts himself up, armed with tap
estry needles and thread, engaged in a
mysterious labor.
So time passes. But not long ago the
alarm bell sounded which was to an
nounce the peril of gas. The inhabi-
tants rush into the cellars.
Everybody put on mask!" shouts
Claudinet.
According to agreement, he runs to
get his grandparents masks and little
Ninette's-the last arranged expressly
to fit her tiny face.
1t was not, thank God, a wave of
gas. But some shells, sufficiently pes
tilential, drop about the village There
was good reason to take precautions.
In five minutes all are prepared. The
majors orders are executed.
In making his rounds among the ci-
villains the officer compliments them on
their punctual observance Of his direc-
tions. ~ -.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-16

tactics to suit the occasion. The chief
thing is never to permit the enemy machine
to get behind you on your tail Once
he gains that vantage point it is difficult to
outmannuvre him, because every turn and
every move that you make he duplicates.
He is, in fact, exactly in the position that
in getting that position. there arc two
points to be considered. One is the oppor-
tunity to send home an effective shot and
the other to guard against attacks from
other planes which may be near.
eff you fighting against odds you
must never stay long after machine.
"If you concentrate on him for more than
a fraction of second some other Hun has
a chance to get steady shot at you, with
out taking any risks himself. To hit a ma
chine when it is flying at right angles to
you across your nose is very difficult. 1t
requires a great deal of judgment in know
ing just how far ahead Of him to aim. To
be successful it is necessary TO hit the pilot
himself and not the machine. 1t is also
necessary to hit the pilot in the upper part
of the body where it will be moro certain
to put him completely out of action at once.
When machine goes into flames It is
largely matter of luck, it means that
several of your bullets have pierced the
petrol tank and ignited the vapor escaping
from it,
"1n our tactics we used this cross shot
as it is called, mainly when after combat
had been broken off for some reason, such
the guns having jammed or the engine
running badly it becomes necessary to
escape. Upon turning to fee your opponent t
New-York tribune., 1919-03-16

for this imprudence. But little
Frenchman doesn't mind if they twcab
one ear-or even two--when he is be-
ing punished merely for being brave.
Now, after some months, a certain ell
derly surgeon major, acting under or
ders from an army commander, calls
the little remnant of villagers together
one evening and says to them, very SOL
emnly:
"Listen carefully to what l am going
to tell you! You may know that the
Germans are employing poison gases,
more and more terrible, in waves or in
shells. These are frightful engines of
warfare, and their use is increasing.
There have been many victims-alto-
gether too many. Now we have de-
fence. And we need it now more than
ever. The military authorities have
given orders that all civilians who are
on the firing line---all civilians without
exception---shall be protected by masks.
Here is box full Of them-~one for
each inhabitant. | am going to show
you how to put on these masks, which
are in good condition and are very prac-
tical. Come here, young mani will fit
one on you, so the others can see how
II is done."
New-York tribune., 1919-03-16

Claudlnet very grave and very proud
lends himself to the experiment.
Each of the villagers has mask,
even the very cid people and the little
children. 1t is arranged that in case of
danger the able-bodied shall see to it
that the others get their masks on SO
Claudinet is charged with looking after
his grandparents and Nnette-a very
important mission.
That evening, after the majors talk,
Claudinet remained very thoughtful.
SO thoughtful that the next day on
his own motion he looks up the surgeon
major.
Pardon, monsieur lie Majeur! Would
you be so good as to give me one mora
mask? Don't you have extra ones now
and then? A big one, if you have it--or
even two, which could be sewed to-
gether?"
"What do you want to do? These are
not playthings, my boy"
"I don't want them to play with"
"Have you lost yours? Weren't you
counted in?"
The boy mumbles, seeking some pre-
varication:
"No, monsieur. ! wasn't counted in.
There was q mistake"
New-York tribune., 1919-03-16

which could pull the balloons down In an
incredibly short space Of time. Sometimes
they would disappear MS if by witchcraft.
Wherever the sausages flew they were pro-
teeted from airplane attack by heavy bat
teries of ant-aireraft guns. and also by
what we came to know as flaming onions
which appear to consist Of about ten balls of
fire and are shot from some kind of
rocket gun. You can see them coming all
the way from the ground, and they travel
just too fast to make it possible to dodge
them. l have never had an onion nearer
than 200 feet of me, but the effect of these
balls of fire reaching for you is most terrify-
ing, especially the first time you have the
pleasure of making their acquaintance.
"Our instructions were not only to drive
the enemy balloons down. but to set fire to
and destroy them. This was to be done by
diving them from above and firing some
incendiary missile at them-not by dropping
bombs on them, as one often hears in
London.
81 was once assigned to do in partcu-
larly annoying sausage that used to fly
persistently in the same place from day to
day. 1t was one of the sausages with a
queer SNAPPED neau, looking 1OT ali tne WOffQ
like a real flying pig-sans feet. Any new
sort of hunting always appealed to me
strongly, and l was eager for the chase
when l crossed into enemy territory in
search of my particular game. l flew ex-
pectantly in the direction where the balloon
usually inhabited the air, but it was no.
where to be seen. l crcled down close to
the ground to be sure it was not on duty,
and Immediately found myself in the midst
of terrific fire from all manner of guns.
"Something told me to hurry away from
there, and / did. The quickest shelter
available was a rather dark and forbidding
cloud, but made for it with all my might,
climbing as fast as my little single scatter
would take me. What relief it was to be
lost in that friendly mist. Continuing to
climb, l rose at last into the sunshine and
then headed for home My balloon had
not been up, but my first experience as
sausage hunter had not been the plcasantest
form of amusement, and I was inclined not
to like it.
Later on / met with some success against
the balloons, but the sport, while exciting,
was not to be compared with that of attack
ing another airplane."
New-York tribune., 1919-03-16
CLAUDINET'S IDEA-By Henry de Forge

But as he comes out of the cellar of
the last house he passes by stable.
What is going on in here?" he saws.
Claudinet is at work attaching to the
cows head strange muzzle, which he
has constructed.
This boy had thought of her-the
good beast, so indispensable to the sick
and to the little children. 1t was for her
to keep her alive and well-that he
had prepared mask from the two eft
overs he had begged of the major.
Just then she'll bursts near the cow
shed, filing the street with velIowish
bitter tasting fumes.
They linger there a good five minutes.
Everybody has vanished into the hiding
places.
When the smoke dissipates the major
makes his rounds again. excited and
very much alarmed. He has visions NJ
disaster.
But the masks have done their pro-
tective work. Even those of the very
old folk.
Even Ninette's.
Even the cows.
Only this daredevil Claudinet. who
was busy buckling on the beasts mask
had not had time to get his own on
properly.
He was the victim-the solitary VIC
tim
Fortunately, it was not an asphvxiat-
ing gas shell. 1t was only tear gas
shell. So Claudinet weeps--and ueeps.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-16
.OR what subtle reason Of strategy
H had this humble village on the
II front been left unevacuated--a
ol, l.,x h.


H had this humble village on the
Il front been left unevacuated-a
village which lay under the en-
emy's fire and to which not only shells,
but also stray bullets, often penetrated?
No one knows.
About thirty civilians are still there
eight very old people, five of them
grandparents There are six households
altogether, including seven boys and
girls, two of them very small
The oldest of the boys is fourteen. He
is Claudin, generally called Claudinet.
This youth is no longer afraid when
the shells fall. And they fall frequently.
He has heard the soldiers laugh at them
and he laughs at them as the soldiers
do. 1t is job to make him take refuge
in the heavily rooted cellar.
He contents himself with guiding to
safety his old grandfather and his old
grandmother, leading them by the hand.
For they have been put under his pro-
lection. He also sees to it that his lit
tie sister, Ninette, gets safely under
cover.
Then he still worries about the cow,
who can't get down into the cellar---the
poor beast!
If she should be hit, it would be
catastrophel She il the only cow left
in the village to give milk for the little
ones and the very old people.
This cow il Claudinet's pride.
Soon he climbs out Of the cellar, his
little nose in the air, watching the sky.
The officers sometimes tweak his ear
New-York tribune., 1919-03-16
The "Joy Stick" and Other Thrillers

you are the under dog 1t Is very diifieult
position, and requires great care to carry
on the fight with any chance Of success
Every time your opponent attempts to dive
ut you, or attack you in any way, the best
thing to do Is to turn on him, pull the nose
of your machine up and fire.
often while hghtng it is necessary to
attack machine head-on until you seem
to be just about to crash in midair.
Neither machine wants to give way and
collisions have been known to occur while
doing this. We prided ourselves that we
hardly ever gave way and the German was
usually the first to swerve. At the last
moment one Of you must dodge up and the
other down, and there is great risk of both
of you doing the same thing which, of
course, is fatal. 1t is perhaps one of the
most thrilling moments in fighting in the
air when you are only 100 yards apart and
coming together at colossal speed, spouting
bullets at each other as fast as YOU can
fire.
Once you have passed you must turn in
stantly to keep your opponent from getting
a favorable position behind you and then
carry on the fight in the usual series of
turn and maneuvres An extraordinary
feature of these fights which occupy any
length of time and entail such mannuyring
is the fact that they generally inde-
cisive, one or the other machine finally de-
Gliding that it must quit and make good its
escape. In nearly all cases where machines
have been downed, it during a fight
which had been very short and the success
full burst of fire had occurred within the
space of minute after the beginning of
actual hostilities.
another experience of air fghtng-radi-
cally different from combat between planes
is the task of attacking enemy observation
balloons.
During the hostilities these balloons few
in the same places almost every day-well
back of the enemy lines-but the observers
in them, equipped with splendid telescopes,
could leisurely look far into our lines and
note everything that was going on. We
proposed to put out these enemy eyes.
1--WE called the big, elongated gasbags
'sausages,' and the French saucisses' They
foated in the at anywhere from 800 to
5000 feet above the ground, and were held
captives by cables. These cables were at
tachcd to some special kind of windlasses,