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VOL XXX. NO. 60
ASSOCIATED PR BUB
, OKLAHOMA CITY, WEDNESDAY, JUNK 12, 1918
PukltthM Oally Ovate '.
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VIRGIE T.7AY WAS
HOT A SUICIDE,
DECLARES UNCLE
Victim of LoVe Tragedy Was
Shot in Back,
DEATH ROoiTwAS LOCKED
Relative Who Buried Girl De
: mands Truth Be Known,
Virgi My did not commit luiclde,
Concluiive evidence Doints to tb fact
that ihi wu killed by George f.
Houich, acording tj John Faughn, the
dead girl' uncle, who returned last
night from Billings.
Faughn, who hai been in Billings
ilnc'e fait Thursday, went carefully over
rtne evidence there and talked to every-
ona wno had een the couple after their
arrival in that place.
Girl Shot in Back.
The fiirl't bodv. he said, lav fare
downward on the bed with a bullet
wound in the back and the revolver
with two chamberi empty lay near.
Housch evidently stood beside the bed
when he fired the shot that killed
Virgie and when he turned the revolver
on himself, he fell forward beside the
fcirl.
It is suprwifd that the shooting oc-
jcurred oh April IS, about six days after.
KM couple left Oklahoma City.
I faughn tuund that Virgie May had
worked one day for the manager of a
note! in Billings and had received $2
Jin payment. One dollar and a half
'was found in the girl's pocketbook,
Housch hid no money at all, it is said,
when the body was searched.
, Doors Wert Locked.
The doors and windows of thi rom
where th shooting occurred were care
fully locked, but the key had not been
left In the door, .
I 'The tragedy wal discovered when tW
Vwner of the place returning, found the
Joor fastened irfd looking through the
ki.j hole saw the two figures on the
t Faughn said that the coroner did not
Itave the bodies removed from the posi
tion in which they had fallen until after
fit arrived and he is sure that it would
Nave been impossible for Virgie to have
hot herself.
Faughn found the man mentioned in
Housch'i diary, who came into the
school house yard while they were
there, and also found several other per
ions who had seen the couple in the
vicinity.
Twelve men, all of whom claimed
they had seen Housch and Virgie. ac
companied Faughn when he went to the
roorri in the deserted farm house where
the bodies of the two were found,
c, Family Denlee Suicide.
. Faughn is a member of the order
of Odd Fellows and several men of that
organization in Billings and vicinity
went with him to Virgie's funeral.
Faughn's story completely refutes the
statement in Housch's diary "The
worst has happend. When I stepped out
for half an hour and came back up
ere, the enclosed note will ten you
what I found. Jim. it is an awful thing
to see that little girl lying here as I
write this."
We want everyfchdy to know the
truth about this," a friend of the May
family said this morninir. "Virgie did
riot kill herself she was killed."
Vfririe's father, in discussing the
shooting the morning after it occurred,
said that he was sure she had been shot
hy Housch. .
' . w.a.a.
Romanoff Family
1 Refuses to Receive
! German Emissary
' AMSTERDAM, June 12-The dow
ager empress of Russia and other mem
bers of the former imperial family who
are at present in the Ukraine, refused
to receive a German Reneral who was
sent to inquire as to their wishes, ae-
coYding to the heinische Westfaelische
Zeittme of Essen, and the Berlin I.okal
Anselger, copies of which have been
received here. 1
British Aviators
Down 21 Planes
On Italian Front
LONDON, June 12 Twenty-one en
emy airplanes have been destroyed on
the Italian front by the British air
forces operating there, according to to
day's war office statement reporting
British operations in this area.
japaiiIo dirtliTiE
pouenn russia
LONDON. June 12 As an outcome
of went conference. Japan is prepar
ing a derHration defining her attitude
toward Russia, acrordins: to a Tieti
Tsln disnatch to the Exchange Tele
graph company.
BillMcAdoo
Jo be at Red
Cross Auction
Bill Is Not the One We Heard
on Liberty Day; He's Only a
Pig, But He's. Patriotic, "
Bill McAdoo arrived this morn
ing to help swell the funds (or ihe
Red Cross at the auction tonight at
tbe Liberty marVet. Bill McAdoo
is a white pig and lives in blue
and white pen with a big red cross
on it, for ' Bill is a patriotic pig
He is traveling over the state mak
ing money for the Red Cross, and
finally will go on to Washington to
be the property of Secretary Mc
Adoo. Ten Acrss of Land Given.
Among the numerous articles
donated for the auction for the
benefit of the Red Cross, is a ten
acre tract of land, given by Mrs.
J. W. Craig of Vinita, through the
Vinita chapter. The land, which
has a clear title, is located in Still
well county, near Westville, Okla
Governor Williams will speak on
the program preceeding the auction
and following a parade of the
downtown streets, in which the
auctioneers from over the state, a
number of automobiles, and . as
many of the articles for sale as can
be taken, will participate.
Fifty Auctioneers Hart.
About fifty auctioneers had ar
rived by noon today and more were
expected this afternoon. They are
giving their services free, and are
managing this Red Cross benefit.
Col. J. C. Coggerty, chairman of the
local committee, has charge of tbe
anair.
r.S.S.-
Girl Acquitted
Of Theft; Sues
For $50,000
Charge of Stealing Shoes
Caused Her Mental and Phy-'
sical Suffering, She Says, -
Alleging that her health and char
acter had ben damaged to the ejatent of
ISOjLXK), in defending herself of mali
cious prosecution on a charge of theft
of a pair of shoes, Miss Margaret
Cheiuult, daughter of C. B. Chenault.
614 West Twenty-third street, brought
suit against the booterie bhoe company
in the district court this morning.
Two causes of action are cited in the
petition, both being .malicious prosecu
tion! before the municipal court and a
Justice of peace court, and $25,000 dam
ages and the eosts of each action is
asked.
Miss Chenault charges in the petition
that the shoe company had her falsely
arrested and brought into court on
charges of stealing a pair of shoes and
states that before the municipal court
the case was continued twice and the
prosecution abandoned the:e but taken
before R. W. Maupin, a justice of the
peace, where she defended herself
against the charge and was acquitted
and found without blame.
The petition states that she was put
to great expense and trouble; that she
was subjected to loss of health and
nervous prostration and mental' and
physical suffering in making this de
fense. It further states that she was
held up to public contempt and ridicule
and that the prosecution was wholly
groundless and malicious.
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OKMULGEE. Okla., June 12 Rob
ert Howard, an oil stock salesmen, who
shot and killed R. L. Bailey of Dallas,
sales manager of the United Oil &
Refining company, and seriously in
jured A. L. Loiier of Muskogee, here
on May 17s was convicted of man
slaughter today and sentenced to thirty
years in the penitentiary.
Fair and Wanner
Weather Forecast
LOCAL FORBCAtT Fair and eon.
tlnuad warm weathar tonight and Thurs
day. HOURLY
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. OeTTlght r the Commlttat M'PuaHe Informal ton.
What the general said is not of record, except In the hearts of the iotdlen who heard him, tut probably certain tec
tors of the German lines will get their interpretation of his words In shrapnel and bombs.
RECRUITS SOUGHT
HERE DY MARtiES
AND CANADIANS
Vimy Ridge Veteran Will En
roll Britishers,
A recruiting station, for the U. S.
marine corps and the British and Can
adian forces was opened today at 226
Lee-Huckins building, opposite the Lee
Huckins hotel, by Sergeant Andrew
Larsen of the marines anu Sergeant
J. S Livingston of the Canadian, army.
Both men attended the weekly lunch
eon of the Ad club at the Skirvin and
talked briefly of their experiences.
Sergeant Larsen was stationed at
Guam at the outbreak of the war and
witnessed the sinking of the German
cruiser Kamerum, which was blown up
by her crew in April, 1917, rather than
to surrender. . .
Sergeant Larsen told of the longest
cruise with prisoners in the. history of
the world. The 320 survivors of the
Kamerum were taken to Manila, thence
to Nagasaki, Japan. Hearing; of a
German raider loose in the Pacific, the
U. S. transport cruised far to the north
into Alaskan waters, making more than
10,000 miles before reaching port at
San Francisco.
The Canadian is out of it, having been
seriously wounded in an arm and leg
after the capture of Vimy ridge by the
Canadians in March, 1917. Livingston
told of the detailed preparations for
the assault of Vimy ridge.
W.S.S, '
Shipyards in U. S.
Exceed Sinkings
By 100,000 Tons
WASHINGTON, June 12-Since
German submarines- began their raids
off the Atlantic coast on May 25 the
output of shipyards building vessels for
the shipping hoard has exceeded the
sinkings of American ships by , more
than 100.000 deadweight tons. The
production during this interval has
been twenty-one vessels totaling 1J0.
642 tons. Excluding the vessels
salvaged the submarines destroyed ten
American ships totalling 26,000 tons.
Six ships were completed during the
first week in Tune. They totalea 24,
430 tons. In the same time there were
fourteen launchings totaling 75,470
tons.
was-- '
Italy's Torpedoes
Sink One Ship,
Wreck Another
VENICE, June 12 One Austrian
dreadnaught was destroyed and a second
one damaged in the torpedo attack
made by Italian torpedo boats upon an
Austrian naval division near the Dal
matian islands on Monday, it was of
ficially stated tonight in a communica
tion by the chief of staff o the Italian
navy.
GIVES FAREWELL
Negro Uses
Vondcn
- -
In Holdup
Victim Discovers Fake and
Puts Footpad to Rout- With
, Fists; Suspect Arrestee!, .
Armed with a clever imitation of a
revolver, in the shape of a piece of
hickory wood carved and patterned like
a 45 caliber automatic, a negro at
tempted to hold up J. M. Wade last
night at Thirteenth street and Lee
avenue.1 Wade, who is a guest of tht
Lee-Huckins hotel, wai out for a
pleasure jaunt at about 10 o'clock last
night, when he encountered tht negro.
Throwing up his hands, ht allowed
tht hold-up man to pilfer one of hJs
hip pockets, containing about $80. Look
ing down at tht weapon, which was
lodged against hit abdbmen, Wade saw
that it was a bogus gun and tent a
clean hit at the thug's jaw and regained
his valuables.
The negro countered with a blow to
tht white man's jaw with the make
believe gun, cutting as) inch gash in
Wade's chin, Then the negro ran.
Ora Ross was arrested a short time
later and identified by Wade as tht
man who held him up. Police records
show that Ross was recently discharged
from the state penitentiary at McAlei
ter for like offense.
Ross was turned over to county offi
cials this morning and a charge of rob
beVy was placed against him. He was
arraigned before Robert W. Maupin,
justice of the peace, and held, for trial
under a bond of $1,000.
"He'slUWrong,
Oscar, All Wrong,
Read It and See
AMSTERDAM, June 12. "A
great part of t'.ie French army has
been beaten," General von Stein,
the Prussian war minister, de- r
dared In a speech to the reirhstag,
according to Berlin tdvices.
The to-called Foch reserve
army no longer, exists," tht min
ister asserted.
"The success of the crown
prince's rarefully prepared attacks
against the French and British on
the Chemin-des-Dames and front
on May 27 inflicted one of the
f ravest defeats the entente has suf
ered during the entire war,"
Hun Declaration
Not to Include
New Peace Offer
LONDON. June 12 In her jprth
coming statement of war aims, Ger
many does not Intend to make any fresh
peace offers according to Bcltn news
papers savs an Exchange Telegraph
Can
j dispatch from Atpsterdarflj
ADVICE
FOCIUIAS GAIilED
II
17ITII LIGHT LOSS
Foe's Casualties -Enormous,
' Premier Clemenceauays,
PARIS, Junt 12. A reassuring Im
pression has been produced by a state
ment given In the senate by Premier
Clemenceau on the situation at tht
front. Ht tald that dtcfslvt results bat
beta obtained at certain points wit
minimum forces ail minimum loaatt,
while tht enemy losses baa beta
enormous, He laid great1 stress on the
resources of tht French army, which at
certain times had crushed tht German
offensive. Details of tht admirable
American effort to despatch new foroai
to Franct wtre given. .
Tht Echo dt Paris states that thert
were crack divisions from General von
Hutier't army in the enemy forces
which wert forced to retreat In the
French counter attack between Rubes
court and St. Maur. In the center
divisions of the f;uard, commanded by
General von Schoeler, wert repulsed.
The Petit Journal calls attention to
the fact that tht appearance 'of cer
tain elements of Prince Rupprtcbt's
army mingled with General von Hutier's
men Indicates that the German losses
were heavy, as the German staff is
opposed to mixing forces from two dif
ferent groups.
DALLAS riANIIELD
WHILE U. S. SEEKS
RUSSIAN JEWELS
Silliman Evans, Legation At
tache,' Has Mysterious Box,
WASHINGTON, June I2.-Investiga
tion of the suspected plot to smuggle
several hundred thousand dollars worth
of socalled Russian crown jewels Into
this country has led to the detention
in Dallas, Texas, of. Silliman Evans,
formerly a clerk of the American lega
tion at Copenhagen, pending an inquiry
into what disposition he made of a bo
bearing a legation seal which he brought
back to this country a few weeks ago.
Mysterious Box
Taken In Dallas
DALLAS, Texas, June 12 The box
bearing the legation seat for which
federal authorities have been seeking in
connection with the suspected plot to
smuggle the Russian crown jewels Into
the United States, has been taken from
Silliman Evans. Dallas newspaper man
and formerly a clerk in the American
legation at Copenhagen, it was learned
here today. Federal officials would not
state what the contents of tht boa wtre.
DECISIVE R'JWT
Huns Seek to
Compiegne
Of Attack
French Score Additional Prorcn K;
Mery andGenlis Wood With Kc!i3
aAjrierican Artillery ; PerchinV ten ci
Front of New Blow at?ViUctC4
Cotterets.
BULLETIN : :''':3'i
LONDON, Junt) 11 Tka Ctrnuiu ar taleistj srfJjs ,
iht) AiMricM thnutt Um pa of tnalr Km to tit) pn6 vv(
Uy ( north wsmI of Chatooa TUorry) m4 i!mu fair kT .".. ) . ,
dMnloiM (about C0,0C0 moa) to atUmytUtf to mc&t IVtti)
"Mtiroly without miooom," ItatorY ttmrtomifsX fct ttszC ;
htttdquarttm totogravlM moV
. "Froth tJivioiotu wort throws at t&o Aaorloaa ti:
Bouroachoa thta ewornlni la a fahioM ttacaff to ratrtra O r;
DA THCI T11 n a 19 QalsV
t niU f Must vuuiu vi hi nmiv, vu vmw vn m w r
tween Soiuoni and tht Mama,, tha Gtrmani aitackti V ) i
morning. Fighting ia going on batwttn tha rirar. and tvi , '
lara-Cotterata foraat, whara Aioarleanawara aagagad. McIir.)
combata ara being fought on tha,
louth of Amblany. i
Sot Much Charto a Comaolrao Front ' - lv,
la oontinuaddurlnfl laat nisrht on iha Irott kit
twaan Montdidiar and tha rtvar
tha aituatlon, ihaiaar ofTlca apiotincaci todty. ; ; r v; :
on tha rranch laft additional prcrtai.wM l?;: -Franch
troopa In tha region east of llerjr and UazUs wo4. ;
Naar tha cantor, along tha Arenda front, la tha'rtr'-H tl ; (
et Maur, thi Logo (am and Ahtiua, th Trtlx k;;! ?
violent attacka by thtvtmm.v --V--J Vr v-Wei
FrotMii Hold Tlglit to Castor. . -
Deaplta repaatad afforta, tha Oarmana on tha Franeh rtr-t
a. .11. A A . t i. a,- it O- AS. Oia - av . 4
were noi aoioxo aaooucn on ma 01111 oanx ox uie uau nrtT ,
Tha French ara holding In tha eantar of tha batila ara
louth of Chanincourt and MaraiUur-Mato. . " s " w .,'; Vis
Today's Fight
To Fix Victory
At Compiegne
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French Are Favored as Hun
Gained No Objective
In Battle,
PARIS, Junt 12.-Today'i fight
probably will declda on which sidt
victory will rtst in tht present 'tat
tle, says Henri Bldou, the military
critic, In rtvltwing thi situation.
Ha says tht fighting it "iking tht
classical form in which tach tida
hat' won on ont wing, flit scales
art now'tven, 1
By their counter-attack tht
French stopped tht enemv from
carrying out hit plant and at tht y
stmt timt assured thtmtelvet of a
better lint of defenst. Tht Ger
' mans now art obliged, M. Bldou
believes, to keep their effectives on
the firing line and to dip Into their
stock of reserves (or fresh di
visions. .
The German plan for tht prcetnt
battle, says Marcel Hutln of Echo
dt Paris, in reporting the statements
of prisoners, Included & atttk
ing and storming of Compiegne hy
the cavalry of the guard under
General von Schoeler on Sunday
evening. Now the Germans not jnly
are not at Compiegne. pur inry
show a great deal less vigor in their
effort!, except on their left.
1 w.a.a." 1 ' '
Germans Stricken
With Horror at
Losses to Kaiser
By The Associated Preei.
WITH THE FRENCH ARMY IN
FRANCE, Tuesday, June H-French
cannon and machine guns have reaped
hraw toll since Sunday. An entire
division of the famous Jaegers! was csjt
to pieces at Ressons-sur-MaU, while a
nurds division lost a great proporuot)
l Um effiwttvai
Other divisions, ft It learned,' tuf
fered equally during tha preparation for
tne artacK and the aqvanc to tive nar
row valleys all tht paisee of wMidi
were dominated by' tht allied gunsi
Every prisoner taken teems Horror
stricken at Int slaughter of his tons
rades x
; ; , , ;-:y.
Fed
jaaasa.. mm . i -'. .
by Rctic
i 1 1
Wear 3:
A--.
TttU' tilt ' :.
Km m W Ik K .
front of Dommiara, Cutrj tzi
, is':-',
Otaa, without tt-t chxritJ
T
Third Day Sen
cneok tt coi
Attotlatti fftw Wtt tasrlaw, 1 ;
German tffortt to bttttr ! down (h i :-
French dtftnsu between oeCiJ :
and tht Olit, begun on Sunday, goiaVta
havt bten check on tht third itf of -is
tha ttrugglt. '.. 'I:, K 'iC
On tht western end of Iht, bftltle lid . . .
tht Frerwh havt eountai-ottotkatl taJ
regained Important around, rhil-tA'
tht ctnttr and rlaht reoeatad eily
by tht tnemy to tnololt hit tarlitr I
etitet havt bten met wtthttarn rc h' ,
tenet from tht French, who MM U-
tht Germans art bting htld. , ., V 'v
Slow IttatH BaUv Alt ,::
Al tht snomtnt tHm tht fjara it '
tha for wtst of tht Olst armn ti
htvt met with.a rtvtresL tht 1.C,l
tht southeast bttwttji tht Al'M tr. '
Marnt has aam flaattd up. '
tht allied lint southwest of Sotted, A ,
tht neighborhood of pexnmitrl. I
and south of Ambltny, tha Car '
havt begun what may be a very
threat to tnt security 01 tut auttt 1
to tht Oiit,.' . , 4,
. Ag Ortat M But t?J. ".'
Tht titw attatk 0014 actm fog C :
moment to bt, thnott tqati in Ic;-. :
snce to that east ol Montdltytr. It '
appears ro ht an effort on tht 'part
of tha enemy to tut in south of Com-
piegna foreit, outflanking the French -tythe
north and cbmpelTing their rt,,'
tlrement and a relocation ef the wholo
allied line, from Montdidler to Chateasj
Thierry. Except for the fact that heavy flgttV
ing is in progress, nothing is known of )rtt
events on this new battle' area, but tho '
struggle thert will bt watched with..'.''
im Miipit iinld thm nuvniiiula At .i'. -
the German trust is developed.' .","'';'. 'f
Freaeb Hold oa Oltt.
The French still hold tht left oanJT ,
of the Oise, although they may fcavw
readjusted their lines fat tho iwrtnent
sections of the Ourscamp and Carlo
pont forests. Their positkma rbtr
however, wifl become very, aoWt iv
should the Germans drlrt tsatt of SoU- -
sons and take considerablt rnvai.
ft.. I I... tl t. .1 . - I A. L .
1 rm iiniou iiajmap " KB Baa
marked the thtatat C3tm attempt .
tinea rtt . iawei$!oa, fcc-T, contmutt;
unabattd from t-i. of llontdidier to
tho 01 M. . Kcar.di of heavy ktaaa
tht Gerraant art throwing n aivitioM
of frtth trooM. 1 "
U striving back tht Germane on their ?
left, tht French menact all tha wmr A"
Mint m the center and right eT J f
the battle hot. If the French
continues tht enemy Is In a I r
to bt caught in a pocket ht t-a k-J
between the Mate and Oise. tffS. .
IjOOO Pilsansn Tajajo, ;; ;" , ;
Bnov. Genlls wood, M.flkt'tvsH t "
the heights' between Coerx. .i
Mortenier were r-ttkt or taa ftw. '"
SJ) fitraapt biQM ! Citoj C
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