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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-07-22
Ringing Banker
lay Enter Race

1t is rumored among friends Of A.
McCrory. a Ringing banker, who rep
resented jefferson county in the leg
islature and who served as speaker
Of the house. that he would get in the
race for governor of Oklahoma next
spring
Mr.. McCrory is said to hold similar
views with State Superintendent Bob
Wilson with reference to the proposed
plan of making nomination by the
democratic party
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-07-22
Auant There, Girls,
Is He Fool or Genius?

Chicago. July 90. - Ambrose
Rose. %. was granted a decree Of
divorce from his third wife and he
asserted today that Women are
getting worse with every genet.
alton"
"My first wife was pretty good"
he said My second was just
medium and the third no good
at all" He asserts he Is through
with them all.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-07-22
LEGIONNAIREs ENPECT AN
ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING

An enthusiastic meeting Of the
George X. Anderson post OF the Amer
lean Legion IL expected at the reg.
ular luncheon gathering at the Cham
Der of Commerce tomorrow noon
County Commander John X. Dix'n
will be chairman OF the day.
Besides the musical program being
arranged some Interesting facts ON
singing and get.together meetings will
he given out. Is was announced BY
Post Commander q. W. King
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-07-22
Wilson Opposes
Caucus Nominations

State Superintendent r. II. Wilson
will be a candidate for governor next
year. He will announce his candidacy
some time next spring.
1t is known that he has told per-
sonal friends that ne will oppose the
plan to make caucus nominations in
advance of the state primary which
has been outlined in call for demo-
cratic meeting to be held July 26 in
Oklahoma City.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-07-22

Washington. july 2g.--After another
informal exchange between the Jap
anese and American governments ~.
newpd confidence that Japan would
consent TO a broad discussion OF the
Ear Eastern problem was evident.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-07-22
EIGHT DROWN IN
MATAGORDA BAY
BODIES RECOVERED
BROTHERIN-LAW OF MISS MYR-
Tile MOORE Is AMONG VIC
TINS; DAUGHTER OF LOCAL
DRIII.ER ALSO LOST

Palacios, Texas, July 22.-Three bod
les of the eight persons drowned yes
terday at the mouth of Green's Bayou,
22 miles from here. have been recov-
cred and the Bayou is being dragged
in the hope OF recovering the other
five bodies. All of the drowned peo-
ple were delegates to the annual en-
campment Of the 3. Y. Z, U.
Palacios. Texas. July 22.-The party
Of 81 delegates left the camp grounds
for a sail on Matagorda Bay yester.
day afternoon and after reaching the
mouth of the Bayou a number went
swimming A bad undertow was re-
ported responsible for the drowning.
of the eight persons. The dead are
John Price, Palacios.
Miss Grace, Courtney, Breckenridge.
Drue Cumbie. Breckenridge.
Miss Il. Mayes, Breckenridge.
Miss Vie Buster, Breckenridge.
Miss Iona Hodges, Breckenridge.
James f. Dykes. Breckenridge.
Archie Bryant. Abilene.
Breckenridge. Texas, July 22.-For-
ty happy delegates to the Il. Y. =. u.
summer encampment at Palacos, left
Breckenridge in special car char
tered by Cliff NJ Caldwell, wealthy
oil producer. on July II. just 10 days
before yesterdays tragedy which tooR
the lives Of eight members of the
party.
OF the Breckenridge dead, Drus
Cumbie, assistant pastor of the First
Baptist church here. came from Dali
las. Texas, last September. He is
35' years old and is survived by his
widow.
Mrs. Barney Mayes, wife of To-
Vie Buster was sister of Mrs. H.
Mayes. Her home was in Dallas, but
she had been visiting here. Miss
Iona Hodges, 81. was the only daugh
ter OF Mr.. and Mrs. G.. B. Hodges.
Her mother Is manager of room
ing house here and the father Is
drilling oil wells at Ardmore. Okla.
hASS 'iIRtNb courtney -, WIS u
high school student here. James
Dykes, so. wholesale grocery clerk,
is survived by a widow and ten
months old baby Archie Bryant Of
Abilene. another victim, was "a years
Of age, and was studying for the min.
istry at Simmons College. Abilene.
Guy Caldwell. mentioned as hero.
ically assisting in rescue work, IS
only lG years Of age. He is the son
OF Cliff NJ. Caldwell and saved his
sister, Mildred, and Miss Mary Nor
gan. daughter Of the Rev. A. j. Nor.
gan. pastor OF the First Baptist
Church here.
Drue Cumbie OF Breckenridge. one
of the victims OF the undertow, Is 4
brother-in-law of Miss Myrtle Moore.
assistant cashier OF the Exchange
National Bank here. Miss Moore will
leave for Breckenridge as soon as she
receives word as to the funeral Mr.
Cumbie was assistant pastor OF thl
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-07-22

Tom Cooper left last night on .
business trip TO Houston Texas. n
will be some for several days
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1921-04-30
Wireless Now Writes Its Own Message

D EATING the German and other for
- eign scientists to the goal and in
augurating a new era in wireless COM
munication, DR.. +. A. Eckhardt and
DIR. j. c. KarCher of the bureau of
standards have succeeded in recording
radio signals autOgraphiCally.
When this invention is perfected and
In general use receiving operators lis
tening day and night for the signals
with their elaborate listening appara-
tuS will be unnecessary. The radio
will write its own message with pen
and ink.
Before a group of fellow scientists
at the meeting Of the Philosophical So
ciety at the Cosmos club, Doctors Eek
hardt and Karcher demonstrated that
their apparatus could take out of the
air signals sent out from Lyons,
France, 1000 miles away, and auto
matically transform them into humpy
ink lines on a chart that can be easily
read.
They have also been able TO place
in the same circuit and record with
the same pen the ticks of a chrOnOm-
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1921-04-30
Uncle Sans Big Claims Against Germany

GERMANY is kicking over what ii
" calls excessive reparations demands
of the allies. Doubtless it has another
kick coming over an additional little
bill of S60O,000.000 to $T00,OO0OOO
which Uncle Sam has to present on
the same account. One of President
Wilson's last official acts was to send
to the senate, in response to a resolu-
ton of inquiry, a statement of claims
for reparation against Germany filed
with the government. AS the United
States, temporarily at least. is not
acting with the allies, what machinery
will be available for the collection of
this bill is yet to be determined.
The bill includes claims filed with
the State department for losses of va
rious kinds footing up about $221, OOO,-
600; claims of American residents of
Germany for property taken from them
there amounting to S191 100000;
American insurance companies demand
about SS5.0O0,0O0; and the government
.tseIf would like SS0,0OOOOO. The mis-
ce.!aneous list, first indicated, includes
claims for loss of life. personal injury.
vessels sunk by submarines, cargOes
lost by same means, insurance paid
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1921-04-30
Red Cross Work Among the War Veterans

by the nationwide chain of chapters,
through which to large extent Red
Cross service is made available to for
mer soldiers. sailors and marines and
their families. The bulk of chapter eX-
DenditureS is for home service and
financial assistance to veterans.
AS a result of the REIMBURSEMENT
three majUr Red Cross services for
veterans are now grouped under the
direction of Arthur FOote. former ma
ior attached to general staff of the
army. These activities include infOr-
nation and service claims, serial serv-
ice in United States public health serv-
ice hospitals. and supplemental service
to men desiring and receiving training
from the federal board for vocational
education.
Hundreds of soldier cases are
brought to the attention of the Red
Cross chapters daily, the Red Cross
announces. In 1920 chapters dealing
directly with the various government
departments or indirectly through ma
tional Red Cross headquarters in
Washington handled more than 20O.-
900 service claims, and, while COM
pensatien cases form large part of
this work, they are by no means the
only causes handled.
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1921-04-30
Credited With the Word Bohemia

The novelist to whom nature owes
the word bOhemia-not in the geo.
graphical sense, but a moral condition
was perhaps Henri Murger, If the
word can be ascribed to any one
writer.
Henri Murger, novelist and poet
was born March "a. 1922, in Paris.
He made attractive to his readers the
irresponsible life of artists and stu
dents in Paris. and left some classic
tales and songs of dissOlute thriftless-
ness and literary impecunlosity. Murg-
er was trained for the profession of
law, became for q time secretary Of
Count Leo Tolstoy, but, like that earli-
er bohemian, Villen. he chose diSsi-
patton rather than decency. He died
in a charity hospital in Paris in 1861.
A monument has been erected to his
memory, but not without protest. Sew
eral of Murger's songs have been trans
lated by Andrew Lang in Ballads and
Lyrics of Old France" published in
1872.
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1921-04-30

We reached the city of Warhoon
after some three days march ana l
was Immediately cast into a dungeon
and heavily chained to the moor anu
walls. Food was brought me at inter
walls but owing to the utter darkness
of the place | do not know whether 1
/ Law there DAYS, or weeks, or months.
No sound reached me from the World
above and no word would my Jailer
vouchsafe when my food was Droughl
to me, although l at first bomDarued
him with questions.
Finally all the hatred and maniacal
| lOathing for these awful creatures VINO
! had placed me in this horrible place
was centered by my tottering reason
upon this single emisSary who repre-
| scented to me the entire horde II war
! hOOns.
l had noticed that he always al
vanced with his dim torch to where he
| could place the food within my reach
and as he stopped to place it upon the
| floor his head was about on a level
with my breast. So, with the cunning
of a mailman, I backed into the far
corner of my cell when next l heard
him approaching and gathering a lit
! tie slack of the great chain which held
me in my hand l waited his coming
| crOuching like some beast of prey. AS
he stopped to place my food upon the
! ground l swung the chain above my
head and crashed the links with all
my strength upon his skull. Without
a sound he slipped to the floor, stone
dead.
Laughing and chattering like the
idiot l was fast becoming I fell upon
his PROSTATE form, my fingers feeling
| for his dead throat. Presently they
came in contact with a small chain at
the end of which dangled number of
| keys. The touch of my fingers on these
keys brought back my reason with the
| suddennesS of thought. No longer was
l jibbering idiot, but a sane, reason
ing man with the means of escape
within my very hands.
AS l was cropping to remove the
| chain from about r'y victims neck
| glanced up into the darkness to see
six pairs of cleaning eyes fixed. IN
winking, upon me. Slowly they APP
preached and slowly l shrank back
from the awful horror Of them. Back
into my corner l crouched holding my
hands, palms ut, before me, and
stealthily on came the awful eyes On
til they reached the dead body at my
feet Then slowly they retreated but
this time with a strange grating sound
and finally they disappeared in some
black and distant recess of my dun
geOn.
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1921-04-30
Band Concerts on the White House Lava

the Easter egg-rOlling was reSunEeA
If was the first time the children pAN
ticipating have enjoyed this forty-year-
old custom. since those who would
have rolled in the last few years had
they been permitted have grown too
old and digniffed now, while an en-
tirelv fresh crop Of children has
reached the right age to enjoy the
sport.
On this same south lawn. one Of the
most beautiful spots in all Washing
ton. il already has been decided that
the Marine band concerts will be re-
sumed. For many years on Sat|Oi-Sy
afternoons in the summer tn y
has played here. people being I%Sz
ted TO ramble all over the incT0sAee
from the south porticO Of the White
House down TO the semicircular iron
fence which forms the southern bound
ary of the White House grounds. When
Mr.. Wilson came into the White House
this was changed and the Saturday
Marine band concerts were shifted
down to the eIlipse south of the White
House grounds and adjoining Potomac
park.
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1921-04-30

INCREASING seriousness of the prob
i lem of the care of veterans of the
World war, as manifested in but one
of its phases, is shown in a statement
by the American Red Cross that its
work alone in this field now involves
an annual expenditure of approximate
ly $9,60O,00O.
This is not the peak, it is stated. for
all information reaching national head
quarters indicates that the calls for
Red Cross service to veterans are con-
stantly increasing, and TO meet them a
centralizing of Red Cross work for
veterans is being put into effect.
OF the total annual rate of eXpendi-
ture for this work more than $2,G00,0OO
is disburSed from National Red Cross
funds, while the remainder is spent
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1921-04-30

host put me through Il severe and
searching crosS-eXamination.
your statements are most remark
able said the voice, on concluding its
questioning. but you are evidently
speaking the truth, and it is equally
evident that you are not of Bars"om.
l can tell that by the conformation Of
your brain and the strange location Of
your internal organs and the shape
and size of your heart"
Can you see through mc?' l eX-
claimed.
ayes, can see all hut your
thoughts. and We're you a BarsoOmian
l could read those"
Then a door opened at the far side
of the chamber and a strange, dried
up. little mummy of man came
toward me. lie wore hut a single ar
collar of gold from which depended
upon his chest a great ornament as
large as a dinner plate set solid with
huge diamonds, except for the exact
center, which was occupied by a
strange stone. an inch in diameter,
that scintillated nine different and dis
tinCt rays: the seven cOlOrS Of our
earthly prism and two beautiful rays
which. to me. were new and namelesS.
l cannot describe them any more than
you could describe red to n blind man.
I only know that they were beautiful
in the extreme.
The old man sat and talked with
me for hours. and the strangeSt part
of our intercourse was that l could
read his every thought while he could
not fathOm an iota from my mind I'M
less | spoke.
The building in which | found my
self contained the machinery which
produces that artificial atmosphere
which sustains life on Mars. The Sc
Cret of the entire process hinges on
the use of the ninth ray. one of the
beautiful scintillations which l had
noted emanating from the great stone
in my hosts diadem.
This ray is separated from the 9th
or rays of the sun by means of finely
adjusted instruments placed upon the
roof Of the huge building, three-quar-
tiers Of which is used for reservoirs in
which the ninth ray is stored. This
product is then treated electrically,
or rather certain proportions of re-
fined electric vibrations are incOr-
porated with it, and the result is then
pumped to the five principal air cen
tiers of the planet where, as 1t is re-
leased, contact with the ether Of space
transforms it into atmosphere.
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1921-04-30
John starts for Helium.
tTO Be CONTINUEDD
He HAD BUSINESS ELSEWHERE
Diner Didnr Care to Wait to See the
Result of His Carelessness
With the Pie.

DR.. Fabyan Franklin has a friend
who voucheS for this story. Coming
downtown on the elevated one morn
ing, he was struck by the explosive
temper of a red-faced, chOleric man
on a seat nearby. This man, annoyed
because a youth facing him had placed
his feet on the seat which the man Oc-
cupied. burst out in storm of pas
sion, denOunCing the youth in tones
that aroused the attention of pasSen-
gers in the adjoining cars. He finally
stamped out on the platform at a
stop. boiling with rage.
That noon Doctor Franklin'S friend
went into a self-service restaurant for
lunch. Getting a plate of vegetables
and meat, and one of pumpkin pie, he
placed them on the broad extension
arm of one of the chairs provided for
lunchers, and made room beside them
for his cup of coffee. AS he was fin
ishing his lunch ne reached for the
pumpkin pie, and clumsily knocked 1t
off the chair arm.
To his horror he saw 1t disappear
into the gaping pocket of large over
coat carelessly flung over the next
chair-and then he perceived the own
er of the overcOat bearing down upon
him, all unconscious of the accident,
with a plateful of food. 1t was the
same red-faced, chOleric man whose
frightful temper had amazed the ele-
waited passengers!
AS soon as the culprit had per-
ceived that he waited TO see no more.
New York Evening Post.
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1921-04-30

out drawing a weapon and without
uttering a word he hurled himself at
the throat of his defamer.
never before had seen two green
Marian warriors battle with natures
weapons and the exhibition of animal
ferocity which ensued was as fearful
q thing as the most disordered imagi-
nation could picture. They tore at
each others eyes and ears with their
hands and with their cleaning tusks
repeatedly slashed and gored until
both were cut fairly to ribbons from
head to foot.
Bar COmas had much the better Of
the battle as he was stronger, quicker
and more intelligent. 1t soon seemed
that the encounter was done saving
only the final death thrust, when Bar
Comas slipped in breaking away from
a clinch. 1t was the one little opening
that Oak Kova needed. and hurting
himself at the body of, his adversary he
buried his single mighty tusk in Bar
Comas' groin and with a last powerful
effort ripped the young jeddak wide
open the full length of his body. the
great tusk finally wedging in the
bones of Bar Comas' jaw. Victor and
vanauished rolled limp and lifeless
upon the moss, a huge mass Of torn
and bloody flesh.
Bar Comas was stone dead, and only
the most herculean efforts on the part
of Oak KOva's females saved him
from the fate be deserved. Three
DAVIS later he walked without assist
ance to the body of Bar Comas which,
by custom, had not been moved from
where 1t fell, and placing his foot
upon the neck of his erstwhile ruler
he assumed the title Of Jeddak OF
Warhoon.
The injuries to Oak Kova had de-
iayed the march so greatly that 1t was
decided to give up the expedition.
which was raid upon a small Thank
community In retaliation for the de-
struction Of the incubator, until after
the great games. and the entire body
OF warriors. ten thousand In number.
turned back toward Warhoon.
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1921-04-30

TADDIE BOY, the Presidents Aire-
l. dale, is q general favorite at the
White House, and there are rumors
of a bulldog soon to arrive. This has
set Washington to recalling the days
of the Roosevelts, when the whole
Mace was overrun by all sorts of Gu
rious animals sent the colonel and his
children by admirers. Washington still
occasionally chuckles over the story
of how when Archie Roosevelt was
sick his pet pony was carried up on
tie White House elevator to his room.
hsS.patally the south lawn of the
Wh,Es. Esuse was overrun by children
for the first time In several years when
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1921-04-30
CHAPTER XI.-continued.

"He will die as Bar COmas, your
jeddak, sees fit, If at all" replied the
young ruler, with emphasis and
dignity.
IF at all?" roared Oak Kova. by
the dead hands at my throat but he
shall die. Bar COmas. No maudlin
weakness on your part shall save him,
o, would that Warhoon were ruled
by a real jeddak rather than by wa
ter-hearted weakling from whom even
old Oak KOva could tear the metal
with his bare hands ~
Bar Comas eyed the defiant and in
subordinate chieftain for an instant,
his expression one of naughty, fear
less contempt and hate, and then with
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1921-04-30
CHAPTER XII.
Battling in the Arena.

Slowly l regained my cOmpoSure
and finally essayed again to attempt
to remove the keys from the dead
body of my former jailer. But as l
reached out into the darkness to To-
cate it found to my horror that II
was gone Then the truth flashed on
me; the owners of those cleaning
eyes had dragged my prize away from
me to be devoured In their nelghboring
lair; as they had been waiting for
days, for weeks for months, through
all this awful eternity of my impriSon-
ment to drag my dead carcass to their
feast.
me. but then a new messenger ap-
peared and my incarceration went on
as before, but not again did l allow
my reason to be submerged by the
horror of my position.
Shortly after this episode another
prisoner was brought in and chained
near me. By the dim torch light l saw
that he was red Marian and l could
scarcely await the departure of his
guards to address him. AS their re-
treating footsteps died away in the
distance, I called out softly the Mar
tan word of greeting, kaor.
"Who are you who speaks out of
the darkneSs?" he answered.
"JOhn Carter, a friend of the red
men of Helium."
81 am of Helium," he said, ''but /
do not recall your name"
And then / told my story as 1 have
written 1t here, emitting any reference
to my love for Dejah Thoris. He was
much excited by the news of Helium's
princess and seemed quite positive
that she and Sofa could easily have
reached q point of safety from where
they left me. "Dejah ThOris and Sofa
entered the hills not five miles from
a great waterway and are now prob
ably quite safe," he assured me.
My fellow prisoner was Kantos Kan,
a padwar Oieutenant) in the navy of
Helium. He had been a member of
the Inflated expedition which had
fallen into the hands of the Thanks
at the time of Dejah Thoris' capture.
During the period of our incarcera-
ton Kantos Kan and l became well
acquainted, and formed a warm per-
sonal friendship. A few dayk only
elapsed, however, before we were
dragged forth from our dungeon for
the great games. We were conducted
early one morning to an enormous
amphitheater. which instead of having
been built upon the surface of the
ground was excavated below the sur
face. It had partially filled with debris
so that how large 1t had originally
been was difficult to say. In its pres
ent condition 1t held the entire
twenty thousand Warhoons of the as
sembled hordes.
The arena was immense but ex-
tremely uneven and unkempt. Around
II the Warhoons had piled building
stone from some Of the ruined edifices
of the ancient city co prevent the ami.
| mails and the captives from escaping
into the audience, and at each end
had been constructed cages to hold
them until their turns came to meet
some horrible death upon the arena.
Kantos Kan and were confined to-
gether in one of the cages. In the
others were wild calots, thOats, mad
zitidars, green warriors and women OF
other hordes, and many strange and
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1921-04-30

and premiums on war-risk insurance.
The foregoing statement takes no
account of the expense of maintaining
the American army in occupied Ger
many. American seamen have pre-
scented a number of claims for loss Of
wages between their capture and re-
lease by Germany. They do not include
indemnity for cruelty or maltreatment'
but merely for loss of time. Many
American citizens have complained to
the Department of State concerning
losses suffered as a result of the de-
probation of the German mark, Gnd
have indicated a desire to get indem-
MITIGATION therefor. Not few had de-