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Llpk a thrift stamp every day
Hoard them like a miner;
Do two bits for Uncle Sam
And help him lick the kaiHcr.
OfGLAHOMA CITY times
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EDITION
VOL. XXX. NO. 31
A.SHIH'IATKD I'ltKHH
l.KAMCI) WIHK IlKI'ORT
OKLAHOMA CITY MONDAY tyAY 6 1918
Price 2' Cent
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SUNDAY'S STORM
MAY TAKE TOLL
OF THREE LIVES
Couple and Daughter at Jones
Crushed in Wrecked Home
RAINFALL IS STATE-WIDE
Benefit to Crops Will Out-
weigh Damage Done
Three lives may luc the toll of the
Itorm that swept Oklahoma Sunday
reaching its climax in Oklahoma county
where the rainfall of the forty-eight
hour ended at 7 o'clock thil morning
totalled 4.14 inches. At Tone. Mr. and
Mn. John A. Smith and their daughter
Mrs. Crist of Shawnee were prohahly
i fatally injured where the Smith home.
two milei from Jones was demolished
by the high wind. No other raMialliei
from the storm were reported but the
property damage particularly to gar-
deners ran high. Agriculturists say that
the damage to crops will be more than
offset by the benefit from the rain.
Streets Are Flooded.
In the city the storm reached it
height at night marooning thoutands of
visitor' to the downtown in atores ho-
tels and theaters. Downto.vn streets
were flooded the water flowed into
basements and cellars and ran six inches
high in some store buildings.
The most severe damage downtown
was the wreckinr of the roof of the
Folly theater which collapsed from the
weight of water on it No person was
injured. Several windows were blovn
in and signs torn down.
With the Canadian river falling
rapidly at noon today the danger from
it going oyer its banks and flooding tlir
urr.puni" territory was at an en"
The river l.ad ' ten extremely low for
thil season of the year. Early this morn-
ini the water was running ose'r'the
tt'tst Keno bridge. '
Fira Chili. K M. Brook a d the
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BULLETINS
WASHIHOTOIt May. . An
igreemenj oa the bill teAding the.
selective draft lit to yonth 31
rears of ag lnc June ) lfliS was
reached today by eenate and house
roaftr. The amendment of Rep-
enttiv Hall of Iowa providing
that additional rtgtatranta aball be
placed at the bottom of prtaent
iltgible lists waa retained.
LONDON May I. Tha British
lav withdrawn their troopa from
la-Salt east of tha Jordan in PaJ-
' stint tha war office announces.
Nearly IjOOO Germans and Turks
and twenty-nine machine guns
hart bean captured in the laat few .
day.
w.a.a."
High Court Dtniat Writ
WASHINGTON May 6-Federal
Court decrees dismissing habeas corpus
proceedings sought by Robert Co of
Missouri a member of the national
army to prevent him from being sent
la Franc were today sustained by the
supreme court.
American Correspondents
"Rough It" in France But
Are Seldom in Real Danger
"Casualty List" Among All
War Reporters Is Two Dead
and One Wounded and
Neither Died In Action
Shepherd Tells in Article.
EDITOR'S NOTE! Thli la the
ninth nt tha aerie of William 0.
hrphent'e "war eonfeaalnna." which.
1m fa with tha life of the American
War correspondent In Rump. The
soneliiitlng article of thta aerlee will
appear Thursday.
By WILLIAM 0. SHEPHERD
Noted War Correspondent and Writer
American correspondents at the front
these days have each a bat made in a
machine (hop and a gat mask. Any-
where behind the lines within a dis-
tance of five or aix miles shrapnel may
find its way to hit metal milinery or
"Mater by aome miles gas may enter his
lungs and crowd out the eigaret
imoke.
It it impossible to be near the line
and not enter into the field of danger.
But I have shamefacedly climbed into
n automobile eo many time during
oncoming danger and rolled away to
eatery leaving behind me men a good
at I who ander military law had to
' stay arte face tha music that Jt it only
fair for ma to dispel the old-time bun-
combe which originated with Archibald
Forbes tha British war correspondent
of olden times when he said : ilt must
THIS IS NOT
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Flashlight picture of the crowd gathered around the Lee-Hucklns hotel last n ight marooned by the flooded atreeU. Notice the city employe in the foreground
trying to clear the aewer. Thie picture waa taken before the water reached its greatest height and flooded the pavements. Three and one-half ouncea of flashlight
powder were used to illumine the streets for the photograph.
HAIG IMPROVES
BATTLE LINES ON
EXTENDED FRONT
Local
Engagements Better
Flanders Line.
LONDON May 6. British line has
been advanced on a considerable front
between the Somme and Ancre rivers
west-southwest of Morlancourt says the
official statement from Field Marshal
Haig's headquarters today.
The Pritih positions in the neigh-
borhood of l.ocre and the I .a we river
on the southern leg of the I.ys salient
in Flanders have been improved as the
result of local fighting.
French Balk Hun Raid.
PARIS. May 6 After an intene
bombardment the Germans last night
attempted to carry out a local attack
near Anchin Jarm southeast of Amiens.
Today's official statement as the
etiemy was repulsed completely.
Drive on Italy
Expected Soon
Associated Presa War Review.
Germany has not yet taken up the of-
fensive in the west and probably an-
other effort against the allied armies is
held in abeyance to he made simul-
uneousl with the - heralded Austro-
flungarian drive on the Italians.
In preparation for further enemy at-
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ent h) constantly in more danger than
the private soldier." I'm willing to have
romance snrronnd the work of the war
writer; it IS a romantic calling indeed.
Rut our Sammies in France held up
face to face with war will run more
danger every day in the front line
trenches than we war writers will face
in a month. Aad by tb casualty fig-
area of war only two out of every too of
them will be killed per year which
ought to be a comforting thought for
mothers and fathers who have boys at'
the front.
Admire the war writers if you want
to for the romance that is involved in
their work. We like to have you do it.
But don't admire us especially for the
danger we run. Most of such admira-
tion is founded on mere bunk and hon-
est war writers do not relish it.
The "Casualty List."
"How much dangef do you war cor-
respondents get into?" is a question
which every correspondent must face
when he returns to the United States.
This vans our American casualty list
up to the winter of 1918:
Dead Henry Beach Needham' mag-
atine writer) killed ia fall of airplane
in euburba of Parle.
Patrick L. Jones Hearst newspaper;
drowned In (Inking of Luaitania.
Wonaded-'Walter C. Wblifen Asso-
ciate Press; (track in leg by shrapnel
while the Ruaelan front
This list tells its own story of the
fact that (o few of the men who are
VENICE ONLY MAIN AND BROADWAY
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Notes Grave and Gay
of Venice for a Night
Itelle Isle lake which has been tion since it provided a thorough flush-
practically dry was filled and this mg of the sewers and the washing off
morning water was running over the
spillway. It was feared that Belle Isle
would not be able to open this year
but the rain has assured a season of
bathing and boating at the park
Employes in establishments do
n-
town were busy early this morning
with hoes shovels brooms and mops
cleaning up the mud which had washed
into the stores closed Sunday night. In
some places it was two inches deep.
While last night's rain 'was heavy it
was not a record hreakrrl (In July 1
1VU there was a fall of 5 (If) inches
and on May 22 191.1 there was
a fal
of 5 48 inches.
Cimniissinner Mark H. Kcssler head
of the health department ronsiders the
rain a great aid to the work of sanita-
CARTER COUNTY
SENDS LARGEST
OF DRAFT QUOTAS
272 Men Go May 27 From
Southern Section
The Carter county local board will
send the largest allotment of men to
camp under the May 25 call wijh 272
men arcording to figures made public
today by Adj. (ien. K. H. Gipson. Creek
county hoard No. 1 will send the sec-
ond largest consignment with 269.
None to Go From City.
Oklahoma City will send no men un-
der the fiext call credits for volunteers
more than offsetting the net quota for
the three local boards. Eighty-three
mrn will be sent from Oklahoma
county howeven fifty from' county
hoard No. 1 and thirty three from
county board No. 2.
673) Will Be Sent.
Districts which are hardest hit by the
coming draft are those in which volun-
teering has been the least as credits
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w.s.i.
Cloudy and Cooler
Weather Forecast
LOCAL FORECAST Partly elouay
and unsettled Innlaht and Tuesday
prohahly aornewhat cooler. '
T ATI r"0BC AST Tonight elnurfw
and rooter In eoiithirMl -portjon Tuea-
dv generally fair and cooler in losjih-
wet oortlon
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of the streets. Considerable work is
ahead fur the street cleaners in re-
moving the mud but the benefits are
well worth it says Kessler.
I -)Vtekr Prt rtch generally he
comes a lake
when the river gets high
was not flooded although it got its
share of water from the rain. Since
the work of putting out the flowers is
in progress the rain was considered the
one thing necessary to put them in full
bloom in the near future The park
will be thrown open officially for the
summer next Sunday.
The rain in Oklahoma City was the
heaviest recorded in any part of the
slate. The forty-eight hours ended this
morning the fall was 4 14 inches. The
nearest to this was 3 05 inches at Nrw-
kirk. '
GAS PRODUCTION
FOR CITY WANES
OFFICIAL SAYS
Hearing Opens on Petition for
Increase in Rates.
The production of gas in the fields
which supply the lines of the Oklahoma
Natural Gas company has waned to the
extent that it is now little more Mian
one-half of what the demand will be
next winter arcording to testimony
given by R. H. Rartlett vice president
of the Oklahoma Natural company to-
day before the state corporation com-
mission in the company's application for
a readjustment of ratesv
Need 100000000 Feet.
Mr. Bartlett testified that the com-
pany now is delivering 3001X1.000 tubic
feet of gas a day and that it would not
be possible to take more than 610(0-
000 feet from well now serving the
company. The demand for' gas last
year reached 100000000 cubic feet and
will be as much or greater this year
he said.
The Morrison field now is the chief
source of supply for the Oklahoma
Natural Mr. bartlett said but this field
has shown a decrease of nearly one-half
of the rock pressure since the pipe line
has been connected. Seven wells in the
Morrison field now supply the Oklaho-
ma Natural lines wifh about 2J000000
feet of ffas a month.
A Bleak Bleak Pictr.
Mr. Bartlett went into detail telling
of conditions in earh of the gas fields
and painted a bleak picture of failing
wells and declining rocc pressure in
each instance. He was on the stand all
morning.
The hearing is on a petition filed
against all distributing companies and
cures served by the Oklahoma Natural
asking that a minimum ratew? 20 cents
a thousand cpbic feet be set on all gas for
industrial consumption. Evidence taken
at this hearing also is to be used in
in an application for increased domestic
rates in each of the cities served in-
cluding Oklahoma City Tulsa Musko-
gee F.I Reno Enid (futhric Shawnee
aod qurjiber o other
LAST NIGHT
WILSON ORDERS
AIRCRAFT GRAFT
PROBED BY U. S.
Department Will Delve Into
. .Alleged Pro-Germanism.
WASHINGTON May .-A billion-dollar
appropriation for air-
craft production was asked of con-
gress today by the war department.
Tbia would add to the $640000000
appropriation already made and ex-
pended. WASHINGTON. Mav 6-A depart-
ment of justice investigation of the
charge of graft in aircratt production
made by (iutron Iiorglum the sculptor
was ordered today by President Wil-
son Ilorglum's charges of pro-German in-
fluence also will be investigated. "De-
mand f r criminal investigation was
made in ie senate recently.
All Data for Public.
President WiUnn is preparing to
make public all the circumstance Con-
nected with the aircraft investigation
made by Borglum and probably will
give out corespnndence bearing on it.
Letters that passed between the presi-
dent and the sculptor it was said to-
day show that after the president re-
ceived the report he asked Borglum
for specific details of his charges of
graft and intimations of disloyalty on
the part of aircraft producers and that
these never have been produced.
On Own Initiative.
This correspondent also shows
it was said that the president did not
request Borglum' investigation but
that he gave his permission that the
inquiry be made after Borglum had
asked that he be authorised to make it.
Borglum's report was turned over by
(Continued en Page 13. Column 1.)
LONG. LOf.G STORY
OF GASOLINE CASE
CONTINUED AGAIN
The gasoline price-fixing case be-
fore the state corporation commis-
sion is to be continued until some
time in July according to an-
nouncement made by Attorney Gen-
eral S. P. Freeling today. It was
to have been heard May 8.
Here is the history of the gaso-
line case.
1916.
Filed bv Attorney General Free-
ling July II.
Set for July 28
Continued to August 0.
Continued to August 2
Continued to September 15
Continued to October 10.
1917.
Continued to January 10
Continued to May 10.
Continued to May 25.
Continued to June 2o.
Continued to July lo.
Continued to September 11.
Continued without date.
1911.
Set on February 6 for February 25.
Continued to March Id
Evidence taken on March 1H 19
and 20
Continued to April 29.
Continued to May 8.
Continued until .some time In July.
Dutch Agree
To Let Huns
(VseMroatisjTOOUITINWESTi
Transport of Sand and Gravel
But No War Material
Permitted.
I 111. MAl.UF-:. Siinda) May 5 -In
aniK'unring t' the Dutch cham-
ber today that Holland and f e r many
had rrai hrd an acri-emcrit. Foreign
Mirmtrr Loudon explained the set-
tlement .if tlie Grrni.ni demand It
transport nf sand and gravel ovrr
the Diitth railway by way of Ker-
moiid Germany he said and agreed
In exilude from transport airplanes
arms and munitions while there
never had been any question of the
transport nt tro- ps
The foreign minister aw Ger-
many had undertaken to limit sand
and Kaiel sent through Hutch
waterways in a maximum of 1.6X).-
M) tons and had promised to use
the material for military purposes.
CHICAGO SOCIETY
LEADER IS DEAD;
FIRST FOR VOTE
Mrs. Potter Palmer Succumbs
at Florida Winter Home
SARASOTA. Fla. May 6-Mrs
Potter Palmer of Chicago is dead at
her wirMer home here.
Mr. Palmer who wa born in Louis
ville and was live widow of Potter
Palmer of Chicago where she was a
social leader had been ill some time.
Several davs ago her family was sum
moned to her bedside and medical
specialists came here from the north.
The body will be taken to Chicago for
burial .leaving here tomorrow.
During the Chicago international ex-
position Mrs. Palmer was president of
the board of woman managers and
visited Europe for the purpose of inter-
esting foreign governments in the fair.
Later she was appointed by the presi-
dent of the United States as the only
woman member of the American com-
mission to the Paris exposition. She
was the possessor of a membership in
the I.eRion of Honor awarded by the
French government.
For years Mrs. Palmer had spent
her winters at her home here which
is considered one of the most beautiful
in Florida.
Pioneer in Suffrage.
Mrs. Palmer was one of the first
women prominent in society to become
actively Interested in public affairs
Gifted with wealth culture and beauty
she was a pioneer in the movement
which eventually led to the agitation in
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Allied Troops
of Coming of Americans to
Make Sure Victory in West
Every Day Spectre of Stars
and Stripes Looms Larger
to Tommies and Poilus
Who Know Present Sacri-
fices Aren't in Vain
By the Associated Press.
WITH THE BRITISH ARMY' IN
FRANCF. Sunday May 5 Luck seems
to be going against the Germans along
the crucial northern battle area. Sun-
day strtl found the Prussian command-
ers working desperately to whip their
organizations in shape for a renewal of
the delayed offensive while the allied
forces aided by the weather continued
the counter operations which were most
disconcerting to enemy playing against
time
The apirit of the allied troope re-
mains at the higheat pitch. They
know that every day'a delay ia ia
itaelf a victory for them. Keck
tweaty-foar hour .that alip by
tnakee America loom larger oa the
boriioa aad bring the mach needed
rest to tb soldier of the battle
line.
The Tommie aad poiloa are
fighting gallantry aad wtUingry
becanee they know tha sacrifice will
not be ia vain sine the United
State will insare victory a little
later.
It wes quite apparent that German
intended aiwther assault in Flaadcri
j
KAISER PROPOSES
THROUGH HOLLAND
Eastern Situation Must Re-
main Unchanged Hun Plan
BELGIUM TO BE RESTORED
Alsace-Lorraine to Remain
Under German Protectorate
LONDON May f. -Foreign Secre-
tary H.iltoiir told the house of com-
mons today that no peace ofirrs had
Ixen made recently by the enemy. H
'inrri ;
"There is no representative of a neu
tral nation in this country who ha
made tentatne or informal suggestion
nf peare negotiations."
A I entrai .News di-patih from The
Hague says the Dutch intermediary i
reported to he Jonkheer f olvn. former
minister of war.
Th nronosals made hv lonkheer
Colyn the dispatrh from The Hague
reports are said there to base been a
miiow s :
"1 Germany to renounce all
cUima in the west.
"2 Restoration of Belgium.
"3 Alsace-Lorraine to be auton-
omous within the German federa-
tion. "4 The status in the east to re-
main aa at present.
"J Austria to make certain con-
ctaaions to Italy in the Trentino.
"6 Balkan questions to be solved
by an intermediations! conference.
"7 All colonial questlona affect-
ing Africa and Aiaa Minor to be
settled by a conference of all the
belligerents.
Germany to abadon all claim
to her former Chinese protectorate
at Kiae Chan hot la exchange to
receive certain economic conceistone
ia Chiaa."
Jonkheer Colyn went to England last
week at the head of a mission who.
purpose was said to be to explain to
the British the difficulties caused by
Ormany's demand on Holland concern-
ing the transfer of German material
across Dutch territory to Belgium
SENATE VOTES NOT
TO TALK SUFFRAGE
WASHINGTON- Mav fiRvr m.r.
gin of one vote a motion proposing that
the senate proceed next Friday to con-
sider the woman suffrage resolution
to the constitution was defeated in tb
senate today. The vote was 40 to 21
iftst one less than the necessary two-
thirds.
CIVIL WAR VETERANS'
PENSION BILL PASSES
WASHINGTON Mav fi The Sher.
wood bill granting a minimum pension)
of $25 a month to civil war veteran
was passed by the house today and nov
goes to the senate.
Live in Hopes
yesterday morning but the arrange-
ments were upset by a combination of
events
Fields Are Mud Flat.
These were the allied operations and.
the heavy rain which converted tha
ground into mud flats over which it
was difficult to move either infantry or
artillery. ' There was also confusion
arising from wholesale reliefs and th
arrival of strange troops in the German
area.
The allied artillery had been main-
taining an incessant bombardment of
enemy territory and Friday night before
the projected German attack the French
and British gunners played hovoc with
the German preparations. 1 he allied
troops also have been carrying out local
operations which improved their hoe
and upset enemy schemes.
Make Quarter Mile A 4 vane.
Yesterday the lilies occupied a large)
number of important position at vari-
ous point along the frnt of 4JXV yarda
west of KemmeT. The British also mad)
an advance of $00 yard along the front
of 1.000 yards northwest of Locon
thereby gaining a number of position!
which had been contested many day
This morning the German tried to re-
gain tome of the s po it ton but were
repulsed. An enemy attack yeetevday
morning in tlie lxxoti area ander cover
of a heavy barrage likewise era
smashed.
On the southern haul front the Bre.
vanced their line in a miijor operation)
ith laat night near SaiUy-U-Sest aeV
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