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SERVICE With SAFETY GCARANTT STATE BANK. Of Ardmore. Not Too Small tor Largs Business. DAILY ARDMOREITE FULL LEASED WIRE ASSOCIATED PRESS. A Newspaper of Character We Can Help You Help Yourself GUARANTY STATE BANK. Or Ardmore. Not Too Large (or Small Business. MORE, OKLAHOMA, SUNDAY, JUNE 30, 1918. VOL. 25. NO. 2C7. TWELVE PAGES TODAY GREA TEST ARMY BUTSET IN WORLD IS PASSED BY THE AMERICAN SENA TE E TOTAL OP AI ORE THAN TWELVE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS FOR WAR HUG APPROPRIATION BILL CARRIES TWENTY PERISH AS BUILDING FALLS VICTIMS AT SIOUX CITY ARE BURNED ALIVE IN BIG COLLAPSE. Washington, June 29. The army appropriation bill carrying $12,089,000,000 the largest single budget in world history was passed today by the senate without a roll call. Much important legislation was added by the senate, but no change was made in the present army draft age limits. After three weeks and without a roll call or a dis senting voice the huge supply measure a world's record breaker was sent to conference between the two houses, with a view to its enactment next Monday, when the ap propriations are needed. An amendment by Senator France of Maryland authorizing the president to make a census or survey to classify the national manpower was adopted without ob jection, but with an intimation from Chairman Chamberlain that it might be stricken in conference. No Reductions. None of the appropriations for the army's part in the war for the financial year beginning July 1 was reduced by the senate. Instead, it increased many items, approved without change the house clause clothing the president with unlim ited authority to increase the army by further draft calls and added scores of important executive rid ers. A futile effort was made by sen ators desirous of specifically or dering an army increase. An amendment by Senator McCumber of North Dakota proposing to "di rect" the president to enlarge the army to 5,000,000 enlisted men, as speedily as men and clothing could be obtained, was rejected 45 to 19 and an amendment by Senator Fall of New Mexico, proposing an in crease of 3,000,000 men, went out viva voce. Many senators declared in voting they were only tempo rarily postponing action in accorl with the war department's reques for two or three months' time t submit the enlarged program. Important Provisions. Among important legislative pro visions added by the senate to the bill, many of which the house lead ers already have agreed to accept is the following: Authorizing the president to or ganize volunteer Slavic and Rus sian legions. Proposing the rank of lieutenant general for Provost Marshal Gen eral Crowder in recognition of his selective draft administration. Providing for training and equip ping of foreign troops, designed especially for the so-called "Pan American" or South American army. Amending the draft law to pro vide quotas based on the number of men in class one instead of on state population. Giving effect to the British American reciprocal draft treaty and other similar conventions which may be concluded, and permanently debarring from American citizen ship citizens or subjects of neutral nations who have filed preliminary citizenship applications and who claim exemption from the draft. Authorizing formation of a $100,- 000.000 corporation under the air craft board. Distinctive Badges. Providing distinctive badges or buttons for men discharged from and rejected for military service. Authorizing the president to com mandeer timber and lumber and conduct timbering operations, pro posed lor the aircraft and ship building program. Providing medals of honor and distinguished service crosses and other decorations. Authorizing officers to buyjheir uniforms and equipment from the government at cost. Providing more medical officers and promotions for the medical corps. AMERICA PREPARES TO AID RUSSIA PLANS CONTINUE DESPITE GERMANY'S SCHEME OF INTERVENTION. Washington, June 29. Prepara tions for extending economic assist ance to Russia went a head today undisturbed by reports that' the Germans contemplated military in tervention in the country. Officials declined to comment on the latest confusing reports of de velopments in Russia, and it was apparent they thought there would be no change in this government's plans. The extent to which Ger many may be able to exert military force on Russia will depend as much on developments on the western front as on Teutonic willingness to assume further control in the Fast. Inasmuch as they have done their worst so far, unhampered by their peace treaties, there is no inclina tion here to look for any decided change in the attitude of the Ger mans. Talk of American military inter vention in Russia is not welcomed in official circles. In preparation for any possible contingency, a survey of'the situa tion has been made so that the United States may not be taken un awares. The question of tonnage is believed to have been settled. Suf ficient ships in the Pacific trade could be mobilized, along with u.uisporrs now building there, to take care of anv initial exn.msinn The shipping board has divided transport contracts almost equally among Atlantic and Pacific yards. There was no official indication today that President Wilson would take the country into his confidence by an early address to congress, leading to the conclusion that plans for helping Russia, aside from the economic assisstance for which preparations already are under way, have not been completed. Sioux City, Iowa, Tune 29 The list of dead in the ruins of the Ruff building, a three-story structure at Fourth and Douglas streets, this city, which collapsed at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon and was burned, was estimated at from 20 to 30 late this afternoon. More than twenty are missing, but may be accounted for later. Ten tailors employed by Phil Landry, who were working in the rear of the top floor of the Ruff building, the part of the building which went down first, and Louis Soiseth. foreman for the F. X. Ba bue & Sons, contractors, who were jacking the building for repairs, died in the hospital. When the Ruff building fell the wall crushed two adjoining struc tures the Chain grocery and the Beaumont & Braugner meat market and buried employes and patrons in the debris. Fire broke out in the ruins within a few minutes and added to the horror of the scene. Cries of the imprisoned persons could he heard above the roar of the flames. All the lire apparatus in the city responded, and assisted by hundreds of volunteers made frantiy efforts to reach those imprisoned in the ruins. About eighteen clerks were in the establishment when the explosion occurred. Fight" of this number are known to have escaped. HUN RULERS AND GENERALS FEAR AMERICAN ARMIES Paris, June 29. (I lavas acengy) German prisoners arc virtually unanimous in confirming the fear felt of the American armies by the German high command. According to the declarations of officers, this is the principal rea son for the determination of Germany to seek at all costs to impose peace on the allies before next winter. Packers and Millers Most Rapacious of the Profiteers, Report Says MADILL IS SCENE OF NEGRO LYNCHING IDENTIFIED AS ASSAILANT OF WHITE WOMAN WHO WAS STABBED. RED CROSS SENDS OUT APPEAL FOR WORKERS Carter County Red Cross Chap ter has on hand a large supply of jauze for surgical dressings. This is considered a matter of great im portance and Ardmore has been es pecially favored as many chapters throughout the country have short of this material. It is now neces sary that the gauze be made up and returned to headquarters at the earliest possible time and for this purpose surgical dressings rooms will be open in every war school building and at IConvention Hall every afternoon this week from 1 :30 to 5 o'clock. A special call has been made for live-yard rolls and the work this week will be concentrated on this particular surgical dressing. Every woman in Ardmore is ex pected to devote a part of her time this week to this work, eitherat the school building nearest her hdme or at Convention Hall. ALLEGED LAND SHARKS ARE GIVEN LIBERTY Madill, Okla., June 29. Loucious McGill, negro' convict, was lynched here early today by 500 persons after he had been identified as the man who stabbed Mrs. Lawson, wife of a farmer living 18 miles southeast of Madill. The woman's wounds are said to be fatal. McGill, an hour earlier, had es caped from the prison farm where he was chopping wood. He was identified by Mrs. A. W. Lawson's daughter, 13 years old. Mrs. Lawson, while resisting the negro, was cut on her throat, and stabbed in the left breast and right side. Mrs. Lawson had gone to a spring some distance from her home when the negro approached her and de manded money. When she told him she had none, he attacked her with a knife. McGill, accompanied by Samuel Fitzhugh and Krvin Keins, also ne gro convicts, after escaping early this morning from the prison farm, separated. Gee Kendrick, superin tendent of the prison farm, follow ed with a pack of blood hounds and captured McGill about two miles from the scene of the crime. The posse of citizens who had assem bled, following the alarm given by Mrs. Lawson's daughter, came upon Superintendent Kendhick and by threats of violence secured posses sion of McGill. After he had been positively iden tified by Mrs. Lawson's daughter, ,i rope was tied around the negro's neck, the free end thrown over a limb and an instant later he was suspended between the limb and earth. A score of revolver shots were fired into the swinginsr body and I the mob dispersed. At a late hour the body had ot been cut down. McGill was sentenced from Lo gan county. Another escaned negro was cap tured and returned to the farm. The third negro is at large. DRIVER CLAIMS HE SHOT WILLIAMS MIDNIGHT MASS BY POPE FOR PEACE Rome, June 29. At a midnight mass for peace and the re-establishment of justice, charity and frater nity through the world. Pope Bene dict raised his voice in prayer in St. Peter' cathedral this morning. The pontiff, accompanied by Archbishop Bonaventure Ceretti, secretary of the congregation for extraordinary ecclesiastical affairs, went to the cathedral at 10 o'clock last night to panicipate in the ceremonies. There were about 1,000 persons present. WEATHER FORECAST, Oklahoma as : fair. Fast and West Tex- Sunday and Monday, generally Arkansas: Sunday and Monday, cloudy, scattered thunder showers. St. Louis, June 29 Dr. F. C Iliskins of Pine Bluff, Ark., and Fdward C. Brecker of New Orleans, arrested here last night on a charge of fraud in connection with the al leged sale of government lands in New Mexico, were released today after the police decided there was insufficient evidence to hold them. The men were arrested on complaint of Henry Wallis, a baker, who said he had paid $S00. supposedly for thej purcnase oi janti. l lie men ex piaineu tncy were acting only as agents for locating individuals on government claims. Days of Old When Knights Were Bold Saw Nothing Akin to This London, June 2?. (Via Otta wa) The feats at arms of nights of old are rivalled in modem warfare by the remark able record of Private Becsley, of the Rifle brigade, who has just been awarded the Victoria cross. When all the officers anj non commissioned officers had been killed in an attack. Private Becsley took command of his company. Leading the assault he captured an enemy post single-handed, killed two Ger mans at their machine guns, and then shot dead an officer who attempted to man the guns. Three mare officers were rushed from a dugout. One at tempted to destroy a map. Beesley shot him, seized the map and made prisoner the other two officers. Four more officers came out. They were disarmed by the in domitable Reeslcy and sent back as prisoners. As the enemy began to re treat a comrade brought up a machine gun. Becsley used this with great effect on the flee ing Germans. For four hours under a heavy fire Beesley and his comrades held their posi tion. The Germans counter-attacked and Beesley ' companion was wounded. Beesley kept his Lewis gun going and held the enemy in check until long after the post on his left had been wiped out. Not until darkness came did Beesley move back to the orig inal line. When he did. he brought along his wounded companion and the Lewis gun. Eeesley then mounted the gun on a parapet and kept it go ing against the enemy until things had quieted down. WIRE BULLETINS Washington, June 29. President Wilson by proclamat ion tmbiv formally took over the wharves anil docks of the North German Lloyd and Hamburg-American Steamship companies at llohokcn, N. J. Virginia, Minn.. June 29. Up to late today five bodies of the 18 min ers killed by the exposition in the Sliver mine had been recovered. Washington. Tune 29 Alm.n ! . uu snort line railroads were turned Hack to private management todav ly the railroad administration a few hours before coneress tiassed Wis. lation intended to prevent the relin quishment of many of them. Be tween .iuu and 400 of the roads re linquished had sought to remain tin ier government management. About snort lines were retained, as part me national system. Washington, June 29. Without a roll call or dissenting vote, and with but 20 minutes' discussion, the senate late today passed and sent to conference the $5,408,000.00 for tifications bill, which provides for enormous increase in ordnance manufacture. London. June 29. Rritish aviat ors in aerial combats on the west ern front Friday shot down 17 Ger man airplanes and sent six others down out of control. Three British machines are missing as a result of the combats. Washington, June 29. Profiteer ing on a tremendous scale in prac tically all of the basic commodities of life was reported to the senate today by the federal trade commis sion, as the result of an exhaustive investigation. "Inordinate greed and barefaced fraud," as well as "war pressure for heavy production," the commission reported as the causes. Re-appraisements of properties were made by great concerns, when it became evident that the govern ment was about to fix prices on a basis of return on investment, the report says, and salaries, allowances and expenses were in many in stances padded to show increased costs of conducting business. Competition Is Defeated. 1 tic outstanding feature ot its investigation, the commission re ported, was the evidence of a ten dency to increase and maintain prices against the forces of compe tition. Of all the big profits disclosed by the investigation, the report says, the profits of the meat packers and those allied with them, and by the flour millers, stand foremost, despite the fixing of prices by the govern ment. Manipulations of the market by five great packers Armour, Swiit, Morris, W ilson and Cudahy the commission asserts, "embrace every i device that is useful to them with out regard to law." The report charges that the five concerns have monopolistic con trol of the meat industry and "are reaching for like domination in oth er products." Pocketed Millions. During 1915, 1916 and 1917, the report says, these companies "pock eted" $140,000,000. "The experience with steel, flour and coal," says the report, referring to price fixing, "shows that a high stimulating fixed price, while sta bilizing an ascending market, pro duces an economic situation which is fraught with hardship to the consuming public and with ultimate peril to the high cost companies through increasing power of their low cost competitors." Millions on Pine. Southern pine producers associa tion, the federal trade commission s report on profiteering charges, have been making unnecessary and tin usually large profits, "running as high as 121 per cent on the net in vestment." "Forty-eight southern pine com panies "producing 2,615,000.000 feet of lumber in 1917," says the report, "made an average profit on the net investment of 17 per cent. This is unusually large for the industry, as is indicated by the fact that the av erage profit in 1916 was only about 5.2 per cent. In 1917, 47 per cent on the footage of the companies cov over 20 per cent. The range of profits was from a small loss to over 121 per cent on the net investment." Morris Issues Statement. New York, June 21'. Morris & Co. issued the following statement: "In the statement of the Federal Trade Commission as to the profits of Morris & Co., the figures given are misleading and are absolutely incorrect. The profits of 263.7 per cent for the three-year war period is e vidently figured on a nominal capital of $3,000,000, and not on the capital invested, while the pre-war profit of 8.6 per cent was figured on the total investment. During 1917, our investment was in excess of $38,000,000 and our profit was one-quarter per cent on this invest ment and not 263.7 per cent as stated. "The average profit on investment for the past three years was 10.95 per cent. We know of no business with so small percentage of profit, especially when it is considered that we are handling highly perishable products and have to reinvest so much of our profits in the business." IN SELF DEFENSE AGED MAN HELD WITHOUT BAIL TO AWAIT TRIAL IN THE DISTRICT COURT. IDENTIFIES THE WEAPON 'I Shot Wylie Williams That's the Gun I Shot Him With He Said He Would Shoot Me," Defendant Declares on Witness Stand. Statement By Swift. Chicago, June 29 Swift & Co. in a statement issued late today, em phatically denied the profiteering charges made by the report of Fed eral Trade Commission investigat ors and on the other hand, charges a trick was perpetrated by the is suance of the report at the time it was made public. "Swift & Co. deeply resent the spiri'i .nd manner in which this re p. k Jas been issued," said the state- was issued for release at n Saturday, a time when of fi- tiat - -nany ousmesses nave clos ed their desks for the week and are usually not on hand to answer sen sational and unfounded charges. It tended to throw suspicion about an essential industry, which it is pub licly recognized has fulfilled tre mendous war demands from the be ginning perhaps better than any other industry in the country." ercd was produced at a profit of nient. Armour Is Angered. Chicago, June 29. Armour & Co. today issued a statement referring to the report of the Federal Trade Commission, for which Francis J. Ileney was attorney, as "designed to impress the headline leaders." "The charge of monopoly is sim ply the old cry against a business because it is big. If a profit of one quarter of a cent on a pound of duct which a government audit shows we make, is profiteering, then there is no honest business in the world, for no valuable business in the world makes a smaller profit per unit of product," says the statc- WILSON KILLS OLD MAIL TUBE SYSTEM KERENSKY IN PARIS. Paris, June 29. Alexander Ke rensky, the former Rusi1Ti provis ional premier, arrived in Paris from London today. Shortly after his ar rival he had a long conference with M. Maklakoff. the Russian ambas sador in Paris. . Vetoes Postoffice Bill Carrying An cient Devices. Washington, June 29. Further government use of pneumatic mail tube systems in six large cities was blocked todav by a presidential veto of the postoffice appropriation bill with a provision directing the post office department to retain the tubes until next March pending an investigation by the Commerce Commission to deter mine the advisability of their pur chase by the government. When an attempt to pass the bill over the veto failed in the house both the house and senate repassed the measure with the provision ob jected to eliminated. In his veto President Wilson supported Post master General Burleson, who had made a fight for abandoning the tube systems as obsolete and use less because of the growth of the volume of mail and the develop ment of the automobile. Contracts for the operation of tubes in New York citv, Brooklyn. Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago and St. Louis expire Monday. MOTORS COMPANY OFFICIALS CONVICTED IN FEDERAL COURT New York, June 29. After more than 24 hours deliberation, a jury in the federal court here today found the Fmerson Motors Com pany, Inc., and several corporate Interstate' am' '"dividual co-defendants guilty oi using tne mails to defraud. The defendants found guilty arc the Fmerson Motors Company, Inc., C. R. Berry & Co.. Robert P. Matches & Co., Nicholas Field Wil son, Kobert P. Matches. William Loo mis and Osborne I'.. Chancy. There were 13 counts in the in dictment with maximum penalties ranging from two to five years im prisonment and an aggregate maxi mum fine of $22,000. Some of the defendants found guilty were con victed on all the counts and the rest on 12. They will be sentenced Tuesday. HUN INDICTED ON CHARGE OF SEDITION AMONG NEGROES NO MORE PERISHABLE GOODS BY MAIL TO U. S. SOLDIERS More Steel Steamers. Mobile. Ala.. June 29 T-rl 5.000 ton all-steel steamers at ap proximately $1,000,000 each have been awarded to the Mobile Ship building Company by the shipping board, it was announced here today. New Yor, June 29. Because it is charged he told a negro soldier that Germany loved the colored race and would establish them un der an independent government in certain of the United States should the Teutons win the war. Max Freudenheim. an Austrian, was in dicted by a federal grand jury here today for violating the espionage act. Freudenheim is also alleged to have saiJ that the Germans would cut off the ears and arms and gouge out the eyes of any American col ored fighters captured. He has been arrested. I Washington, June 29. No more perishable goods, such as fruit and foods, will be accepted at postof fices for mailing to troops because almost always they cannot be de livered in edible condition. BOMBS FOR HUNS. London, June 29. Fifteen tons of bombs were dropped by British naval aircraft on enemy targets during the period from June 4 to June 26, the admiralty announced today. In engagements with hostile aircraft. thre of these were brought down. The British lost two of their own machines "1 shot Wylie Williams. That's the gun I shot him with. 1 have had it since last spring. 1 saw him coming through the gate and asked him about my money. He said he would not pav me a d d cent, lie jerked Ins horse back, threw his hand toward his pocket and said: i will shoot your l' d old ignorant head off.' Then 1 shot him." That was the testimony of W. C. Driver, while on the witness stand in the county court yesterday after noon in his own behalf, at the pre liminary hearing of himself and C .... I ... It-.. . . .-u.iiiiey iierrmit, ins grandson, charged jointly with the murder of Wylie Williams, which occurred northwest of Springer last Tuesday. At the conclusion of the hearing, which consumed the entire after noon, Judge Thomas Champion held Driver without bail tn the district court for trial and took the case of Stanley Harriott under advisement until tomorrow. A. J. Hardy, county attorney, James Mathers and Thomas Xor man appeared for the state, and J. B. Champion represented the de fendants. A large number of wit nesses were examined, most of them character witnesses, introduced hv the defense. The defense began it's case backward, that is introducing ns cnaracter witnesses first, and this evidence was admitted over the strenuous objections of the state, but the attorney for the defendant said he would put Driver on the stand before the hearing was com pleted. Description of Wound. Dr. II. A. Iliggins of Springer was the first witness for the state and told of examining the body of Williams and finding a hole in" the right side of his face three inches up and down and two and three-quarters inches across. In the wound he found powder and pieces of felt or gun wadding ami slivers of bone in the brain tissue. Tis evidence tended to show that the dead man was in a stooping position when shot, bearing out the theory of the state that while he was stooping to unfasten the gate, the fastening be ing one and one-half or two feet from the ground, that Driver, who was alleged to have been in hiding behind a big tree, ambushed Wil liams. On cross-examination he said Driver bore a good reputation and that Williams' reputation was bad. He had heard that Driver was a moonshiner, but did not hear of it until after this killing. On re-direct examination he said he had never heard of Williams being in a cut ting or shooting scrape or fighting with anybody. Mrs. Williams' Testimony. Mrs. Bessie Williams, widow of the slain man, was the next witness. .She said her husband left honu j Tuesday morning, about 8 o'clock, to go to Ardmore. She did not hear of the killing until two hours after she heard the shot. The Wil liams family intended to move from that neighborhood the next day. She went to the gate where her husband was lying in the road and there was no one there. She saw a dog about the body. She told how her husband was dressed and identi fied his hat, which had been shot through the brim. She said he wore no coat. She said he had no weap ons, that none were about his body and he did not own a gun. She saw Mrs. Dyer near the place and spoke to her, but she crossed the road anJ did not answer. She was asked if her husband did not buy cattle from Driver, give him a cluck tor $1,800, sell the cattle, then take back the check and tear it up. She said he did not do that and that she never heard him say a word against Driv er. Driver, she said, had never sued her husband and that her husband had cattle, horses, mules and lands; that he had just bought a farm near I'ooleville. L. R. Sermons, father of Mrs. Williams, testified to much that she did, he having gone with her to the gate. He heard the shot about 5:30 and said it was but a few minutes before the sun went behind the mountains when they heard of the murder, although the house where they lived was only a short distance away. When they reached the body there was no one there, but dogs were licking the wound and the ants were crawling over the body. Stan ley Harriott was the first to tell hia (Continued on page 3.)