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Vol. 2—No. 217
OKLAHOMA CITY, OIvLA., TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1922
PRICE TWO C1LNTS
TALKING
ST OVER
How a militant, progressive
force like the Nonpartisan
League of North Dakota re-
acts on the political views of
its opponents, is well illustrated
by a resolution passed by the
democratic party at its state
convention in that state.
Democrats in North Dakota
are scarce, about as scarce as
republicans in Alabama; and
the party would have hardly
any excuse for existence ex-
cepting that the forces op-
posed to the league had to use
the democratic party for po-
litical expression against the
league.
Here is a part of the resolu-
tion :
"We urge the early comple-
tion of the state terminal ele-
vator and mill that the same
may be placed in operation at
the earliest possible date and
be given a fair and thorough
trial."
♦ * *
Can you imagine either of
the old parties in North Dakota
standing for a demand of Hi is
kind, had it not been for the
activity of the farmers through
the League?
The farmers are striving for
a solution of their economic
difficulties, and they are going
to find the solution.
Party labels have ceased to
be a cause for division. Re-
publican and democratic and
socialist farmers, who stent!
for the advancement and prog-
ress of the people along co-
operative lines, are acting and
voting together through the
League. And no one can deny
that they have accomplished
things, that none of the "pure-
ly" party organizations have
accomplished in any other state
of the union.
# * *
Within socialist ranks the
tendency is also to take ad- [
vantage of political situations, j
even if such actions are con-;
trary to the past standard oil
no compromise, no political fii-|
sion. In Milwaukee some sol-
dier candidates were elected as
aldermen as so-called "nonpar-
tisan" candidates, in opposition
to the socialist candidates.
Some of these soldier candi-
dates have now joined with ;he
socialists in the interest of
efficient and economical city
government. The capitalist
sheets expected that the "sol-
diers" would stand pat and be-
come a part of the crooked old
machine, but here is what hap-
pened, as related in the Mil-
waukee Leader:
"Wher a vacancy occurred in
the 16th Ward by the death of
Pat Grogan, the anti-socialist
hoodoo aldermen immediately
arranged to elect in his place
G. 13. McKinley—whose term
was just expiring as alderman-
at-large. McKinley was the
blackest reactionary in the
Common Council.
"Aldermen Hannifin and .Ta-
nicki at this point broke away
from the hoodoo congregation
and refused to support Mc-
Kinley.
tj« * #
"They nominated Daniel Mc-
Williairis—formerly a member
of the polico department, a man
who some years ago stood with
the socialist policemen in their
AG
flTFORTWORTH
Two Women Are Reported
Drowned—Hundreds De-
clared Homeless.
FOltT WORTH, April So.—Death
toll in the flood here was estimated
at eight or ten late today. Two wom-
en, a mail and a child were drowned
when a rescue boat capsized.
More than a thousand arc believed
homeless.
The city's water supply lias been
cut off.
FORT WORTH. Texas, April 25.—
Two women had been drowned today,
and several persons were misting, as
the Trinity river, and smaller
streams, flooded portions of this city,
washing away houses and inundating
streets.
The women had taken refuge in a
tree, which was swept away by the
flood waters.
A rain of more than seven inches
fell, preceding the swift rise of the
Trinity, and several creeks.
The electrical system is demoral-
ized by the flood, and wires were
down in many places. One lumber
yard caught on fire and burned, as
firemen were unable to reach it,
through the waters.
The north end of Fort Worth is
practically a pond. Water in the
north side police station is a yard
deep.
Several hundred people are be-
lieved to be homeless as a result of
the flood, and the property damage
will amount high.
Police and firemen have been call-
ed out to guard the levee west of
the power house, when warning was
issued that the continued rise of the
river placed it in danger of giving
way.
DAALAS, April 25.—With the Trin-
ity river already high, fear was ex-
pressed today that serious conditions
will prevail in the lowlands when the
crest now in Fort Worth reaches
here.
Torrential rains here flooded many
city streets. Some damage was re-
tpored in basements. Electrical dis-
turbances and violent winds accom-
panied the rain.
Miners On Strike
Total 680,000 As
Unorganized Join
Twenty Thousand Non-Union Men Quit Work During Week;
Tents Are Appealed For As Companies Evict Miners'
Families, and Seize Part ot Houshold Goods.
01
TBI
ST ALL
Sheriff's Deputies Raid Dan-
cing Resorts.
Four persons were arrested Mon-
day at the Glen Echo dance hall by
Sheriff Ben Dancy, in his drive to
clean up the place, where he de-
clares young girls and boys
drink whisky and are guilty of im-
proper conduct.
He has sent deputies to several of
the dance halls near the city, to find
the actual conditions of these places,
and has started a campaign to
change conditions.
The arrests at Glen Echo came
after a request by the management
that deputies be present as there
had been some rough dancing a
week previous.
Members of the deputies force re-
ported that at a hall north of the
state capltol there was so much
drinking and carousing that it
would have been useless to have
started to make arrests.
CHURCH BODY
IS RESTRAINED
LAWTON, April 25.—Preparations
for further contests were being made
today, by both factions in the fight
that centered about Rev. T. J. Irwin
and six elders of the First Presby-
terian church here.
Injunction was granted in county
court yesterday, to restrain the El
Reno presbytery from taking charge
of the church.
The trouble is snid to have begun
er Rev. Irwin's friendliness to the
figllt to abolish certain abuses hate Jake L. Hamon. The minister
in the department. The pow- < supported Hamon in a political cam-
prs that ruled the department imign. and prcached his f.mernl ser-
at that time made it so uncom-; are «aM to
fortable for McWilliams that
! have arisen \\ien Rev. Irwin per-
he preferred to resign from tne:formed a marriage ceremony for an
force ! Oklahoma City couple while the bri-
"Incidentally, McWilliams is dal pair were in a Bwlmmtng pool,
u;n.< tj«* woe in Fvnnro I wearing bathing suits.
an ex-soldier. He was in nance A smaU fj|,e occurred in the
with the 32nd Division. < church building Saturday.
* * #
"The anti-socialist hoodoos! r p A D IC FIT IT
- the council—when they no fCi4n tJ 1 UL,t
FOR SEAPLANE
ticed the insurgency—became[
frightened and ditched McKin-
ley. ] KEY WEST, Fla., April 25.—Fear
"This in itself wa3 a victory! was expressed today tor the safety
for the two 'soldier aldermen,', of seven persons on board the aea-
but the hoodoos endeavored
COVei* it up by nominating an- not arrived at its destination nor has
other 'soldier' who they felt | it been heard from.
confident would take orders — —-
and keep his mouth shut. '1 hej ^Norway ^--^eoal.^t, Sweden
deadlock thus created \.as end ^as p00(j supplies.
ed by the socialists on Tues-1
day—-in view of the fact that
the 16th Ward is a pail of the
city where the socialists can-
not even nominate a candidate,
much less elect one.
"Immediately upon taking
the oath ol' office, Alderman
McWilliams lined up with the
socialists and the other 'sol-
dier aldermen,' to reorganize
the Common Council in such a
way as to cut out some of the
vicious power of the old £an« \"
INDIANAPOLIS, April 25—Twen-
ty thousand additional non-union
miners have joined the coal strike
the last week, making a total of 680,-
000 miners on strike. United Mine
Workers' headquarters here an-
nounce.
The 514,000 union miners are now
reinforced by 166,000 others, many
of whom have joined the union since
the strike began April 1, when mine
owners refused to fulfill their pledge
and meet lu wage conference for a
new agreement.
The chief union gains have come
in Pennsylvania and West Virginia
bituminous fields. Anthracite fields
are thoroughly organized and pro-
duction there has stopped com-
pletely. Bituminous production is
cut down to about one-third of what
operators expected when they allow-
ed the strike to materallze.
The coke region of Fayette, Green
and Westmoreland counties in Penn-
sylvania is over 80 per cent shut
down, according to reports from F T.
Pagan, vice president, U. M. W. A.,
in that district. The Frick mine at
Breensburg is closed.
West Feeling Strike,
Chicago Paper Admits.
CHICAGO, April 25.—Coal is get-
ting scarcer and prices are going
upward, the Chicago Journal of Com-
merce reports.
"It is surprising to note the num-
ber of inquiries being received for
coal from the non-union fields.
There is practically no western coal
left so that all the demand is for
the non-union product. What little
coal remains in Illinois and Indiana
is expected to be held by the opera-
tors for the maintenance and care
of the idle mine operations.
"While the demand is good there
are not so many sales because o7
the prices offered. Much of the coal
sold is going to the east and north
with a little here and there for re-
tailers who are replenishing scant
stocks."
Appeal For Army Tents
As Families Are Evicted.
Hy Federated Press.
CRESSON, Pa., April 25.—Military
tent colonies for the families of
evicted miners will be seen in cen-
tral Pennsylvania if the secretary of
war acts on the telegraphic demand
just sent him by President John
Brophy, of district 2.
"Operators in central Pennsylva-
nia," says the wire to Secretary
Weeks, "are evicting miners from
their homes in such numbers that
we are forced to request the govern-
ment for tents to care for their fam-
ilies. As citizens and as representa-
tives of the mining population we
ask you to make available 1,000 tents
from the government military sup-
plies for this emergency.
Household Goods Seized.
"Evictions are now taking place.
In Bitumin, 40 families have been
served with writs of eviction. In
Twin Rocks the same is true. In
Revloc nine writs so far have been
turned over to the sheriff. Else-
where hundreds of notices have been
issued by coal operators.
"We have no desire to dwell on
what eviction means in mining com-
munities. We are confronted with
the simple hard fact—whole families
without shelter. You realize that
when thrown out of a company house
in a company house town the miner
can find no shelter within miles for
his family or his household goods.
The company owns the earth in these
quarters. Eviction means exile.
Communities Shelterless.
"It is a practice moreover for the
law officers to attach part of the
goods spilled into the highway to pay
for the costs of eviction. The family
cook stove and food supplies have
been taken to pay for evictions.
"Entire communities under such
tactics of the operators can be as
completely bereft of shelter as were
the people of Johnstown by the great
flood and the families of Salem by
the fire. We ask you to make avail-
able to exiled communities the
emergency resources under your
command.
"JOHN BROPHY.
"President District 2, U. M. W. of A."
A similar demand was made on
Governor Spfoul of Pennsylvania.
Anti-Strike Activities
Repudiated By Veterans.
Hy Federated PregH.
j CRESSON, Pa.. April 25.—Report-
ed anti-strike activity by members
of the Veterans of Foreign Wars is
j repudiated by the Johnstow n post in
the following statement:
"It has been brought to the atten-
Ition of the officers of Menoher Post
j No. 165, V. F. W., that some of their
members are doing guard duty among
the coal strikers at Windber, Pa. The
officers of the post wish to state and
make plain to the public that, if this
be so, they know nothing of it and
no one has been authorized by the
organization to participate Whatso-
ever in the strike, as the principles
of the organization will not permit
it; and if any wearing V. F. W. but-
tons are doing this act they are doing
it as individuals and not as an or-
ganization."
Public opinion in central Pennsyl-
vania is so strongly in favor of the
mine strike that commercial and pa-
triotic associations are finding it ex-
pedient to avoid any apparent alli-
ance with the operators. Even the
Johnstown and Altoona newspapers
as a whole are going along with the
tide to a guarded extent.
FINE FOR B
F0LL0D1/BC
T
IKERS
URGES
UGH
3 Bakers Each Get Fines of
$10 and Costs—Loaves
2 to 4 Ounces Short.
Selling short weight or unlabeled
loaves of bread were the charges on
which ten local bakers were con-
victed and fined in municipal court
Tuesday morning. Each was fined
$10 and costs.
A city ordinance forbids the sell-
ing of bread of less weight than is
stamped on the package and speci-
fies that the weight must must be
stamped on the package. Companies
charged were: Buskin's Federal,
Capltol Hill, Banner, May wood, Nor-
man, Claussen, Campbell and Smith
bakeries.
All but the Federal and Claussen
bakeries were fined for short weights
the inspector testifying that the
bread actually weighed from two to
f< labeled
The Claussen bakery was fined for
no. . _ ..twgiii oi their
product.
Warrant has not been served as
yet on the Federal bakery.
Investigation of the loaves of the
Royal bakery showed their loaves
to be three ounces heavier than the
label announced.
The complaints were filed by J. B.
Norton, weight and measures in-
spector, working under Bob Parman,
commissioner of public safety. Par-
man had ordered Norton to weigh
the products of every bakery of the
city and the complaints were the re-
sult.
C. E. Clifford, city chemist, testi-
fied that notices were sent to bakers
at the time the city passed the ordi-
j nance requiring bread to be correctly
labeled.
All of the representatives of the
bakeries entered pleas of not guilty.
Fifteen Workers Named As
Agitators Collect $200
Each From Company.
The Tidal Oil company of Tulsa
must pay a total of $3,000 in sums of
$200 to each of fifteen men who were
named in a blacklist letter sent out
by that firm. The fine is the result
of a hearing conducted by Connally,
state commissioner of labor, it was
learned Tuesday.
The letter named the fifteen men
and declared that they were more or
less radical and had sought to organ-
ize unions in shops where they had
been employed.
Sending out such information
comes under the state blacklisting
law, according to Connally. The law
provides that no firm or individual
shall send out any information which
| shall be construed as a blacklist or
(intended to blacklist. The penalty
provided in the law is a fine of from
$100 to $500 with the provision that
the injured persons may recover
damages.
Three Men Fired.
This case grew out of the firing of
three men working for the oil com-
pany. The rest of the men quit work.
Following a personal encounter with
the superintendent, it is alleged that
the superintendent took upon himself
the authority to write a letter plac-
ing the men on the blacklist ami sent
it to a number of oil companies in
the district.
According to Connally. the com-
j pany declared that the superintend-
ent sent out the letter unauthorized
and thnt they knew nothing of it
until the complaint was made.
! Besides agreeing to pay the men
! the $200 damages each, the company
; wrote a letter to all of the companies
' to whom the list was sent, explain-
ing that they were not responsible
(for the letter and that the company
had no objection to the men's work.
Connally declared that the men
were all satisfied with the settle-
I ment and expressed their satisfaction
in the manner in which the labor de-
partment handled the case.
MEETING CULLED
ILK BONOS
ID
Soviet Proposals Meet With
Disapproval of Allies.
GENOA. April 25.—Virtual dead-
lock existed here today, over nego-
tiations with Russia.
An agreement submitted by soviet
delegates brought hot protests from
the allied representatives, and was
reported to have met with flat rejec-
tion. Meanwhile the French govern-
ment was rumored to have instruct-
ed its envoys to deliver a two-day
ultimatum to the Russian delegates,
after which the French would with-
draw from the conference.
The Russians, according to reports
today, insisted upon a thirty-year
moratorium, a five billion gold ruble
loan, de jure recognition, cancella-
tion of interest on czarist debts, and
settlement of war debts on a basis
which would practically eliminate
them from the bills the soviet would
have to pay.
The allies declared they had no
money for such a loan, and coun-
tered with a suggestion that Russian
internal industrial needs be cared
for by allied interests, and managed
by the same. This the Russians re-
I jected.
Reference to the pact with the
Germans, as a basis for comparison
j in present negotiations, brought angry
| retorts from the French delegation,
j which is still hostile to the Ger-
i many-Russian treaty.
MAKE MEW WORK
TWELVE
HOURS
OFFICIALS WON'T STRIKE
BERLIN. April 26.—Higher civil
service officials will not strike to en-
force their wage demands on the gov-
ernment*
I MILWAUKEE, April 25.- Employes
j of the Nash Motors company arc
; working 12 hours a day, instead of
j H. as heretofore, on straight time,
j There will be no overtime paid, ac-
i' cording to a notice posted in the
factory. Men have, on occasion, been
"working 0 hours a day. being paid
at the rate of time and a half foi
the overtime.
Commissioners Will Decide on
Pershing Situation.
Future action upon the Pershing
bond situation will be decided in a
meeting of Oklahoma county com-
missioners which was scheduled for
Tuesday, Tom Bodine, county clerk,
announced.
Ed Butterfleld, chairman of the
board of commissioners, and George
Brown, commissioner, have returned
from Osage county, where they held
meetings with Pershing officers and
with the county officers at Paw-
huska.
They announced that they would
"take any action which seems nec-
essary to protect the taxpayers of
Oklahoma county." Suits may be
filed, as was done in the case of
Ada, where it was alleged that of-
ficers of an engineering company
misrepresented the condition of the
tow n when the bonds were sold.
Oklahoma county holds $80,000 In
Pershing water bonds on which in-
terest is defaulting.
TWO EDITORS IN
FATAL^QUARREL
DURANGO. Colorado, April 25.—
William L. Wood. 25, was dead to-
day, and Reed S. Day, 27, was in cus-
tody charged with having slain him,
as a result of a newspaper quarrel.
Wood was city editor of the Du-
rango Herald, and Day was editor of
the Durango Democrat.
A bitter editorial battle had been
waged between the two papers
Day admitted having shot Wood.
DEMOCRAT POLITICIANS
FORGE UNION LABEL
MOBILE, Ala., April 25.—Forgery
of the union label on a Democratic
election card circulated here is be-
ing investigated by the Allied Print-
ing Trades council. The printer w ho
took the order from th^ candidate
had at no time been a union member
although he represented himself as a
union man. He says he had the card
printed in another shop, which also
turned out to be a non-union "rat"
shop. Infringements on the union
label are actionable either under the
federal copyright laws or under state
statutes. Court actions have almost
invariably resulted in victories for
the union.
UNION LABOR HOSPITAL
CHANGES PHYSICIANS
The board of trustees of the Cnion
Labor Hospital association announced
Tuesday that Doctors H. V. Dres-
bach and G. II. Ross are no longer
Identified, in a professional way.
with the association.
I)r. ('. E. Shackelford has been
chosen medical director, and mem-
bers wishing services of the asso-
ciation should visit him at Rooms
224-225 Huckins' Estate building,
phone Maple 4311, it is announced.
Large Taxpayers
Find Loophole In
Income Tax Laws
State Loses $3,000,000 a Year In Taxes. Says Frank Car-
ter—Make Loans Instead of Paying Dividends;
Bookkeeping Legerdemain Does the Rest.
THREATENED AS
5
Taxes to the amount of $3,000,000
from those, parties who are most able
to pay them are annually lost be-
cause of the state's defective income
tax law, Frank Carter, state audi-
tor, and candidate for corporation
commissioner, charges.
"Because the law provides no
means whereby the surplus or un-
divided profits of a corporation inay
be taxed, hundreds of ricli taxpay-
ers have taken advantage of the loop-
hole offered," Carter declared.
A favorite method for merchants
and other business men to dodge the
tax has been to change the form
of business from a partnership or a
business under a single head to an
incorporated concern. Carter as-
serted that he knew of Oklahoma
RESULT OF BO!
10TF
DOUBT;
IS LIGHT
About a Thousand Had Been
To Polls By One 0'Clock;
Autos Are Busy.
Results of the school bond election
shown by noon made the final result
appear extremely doubtful, on ac-
count of the unexpected opposition
and the light vote. About 1,000 votes
had been cast by 1 o'clock, with
southern precincts Bhowtng a ma-
jority against the bonds. It was said
that the nothern section of the city
was voting for the bonds.
The .Second aud Third wards ap-
peared to be doubtful, as they were
even in the supporters and opponents
of the bonds were apparently evenly
divided.
The Fourth was giving a majority
against the bonds, and the First a
majority for the bonds.
Automobiles were being secured to
take voters to the polls, according to
R. A. Singletary, campaign secretary,
who declared that the success of the
election lay In getting out the women
voters.
The proposed school bonds of $1,-
900,000 would build extensions to
present buildings, and erect several
new buildings. Recently, there has
been a strong movement to have the
bonds defeated.
' Ity firms which had adopted these I
tactics.
In all enses, the men were heads
of large business houses making high
profits. The state income tax law
provides for a tax on the income of
these men of course, farter said, but
after incorporation, all that is re-
| quired is a little knowledge of hook-
| keeping to evade the tax. The large
income dwindles, apparently al-
though there is no decrease in busi-
ness. Loans may be made which are
later wiped out. Stock dividends may
also be issued.
The "loan" process is particularly
suitable to evasion of the tax laws.
A large undivided surplus accumu-
lates in an Incorporated concern. If
this was paid out in dividends it
would be at once taxable under the
law. Instead of being called a "div-
idend" it is called a "loan" and the
borrower is theoretically expected
to repay it. After several years'
time the loan is wiped off the books
as a bad debt or otherwise concealed
and the tax collector is successfully
evaded.
Good Hill Is Pigeonholed.
An act which would amend this
and save the state this sum of taxes
which Is now being lost, and help
to lighten the burden of taxation
upon those less able to pay was in-
troduced in the last legislature by
L. A. Pearson, representative from
Harmon county, Carter stated. It was
referred to the committee on revenue
and finance, however, and died in
the committee.
The original act reads as follows:
i "Each and every person In this state
shall be liable to an annual Income
tax upon the entire net income of
such persons arising or accruing
from all sources during the preced-
ing calendar year and a like tax shall
be levied, assessed, collected, and
paid annually upon the net income
from all propertyowners, and of
every business, trade, or profession
carried on in this state by persons
residing elsewhere."
Of what an Income may consist is
explained in a later clause, and in-
clude only the following:
All rentals from real estate.
All interest on money invested in
notes, mortgages, and bonds.
Wages, salaries, and fees.
Dividends or profits from stocks or
purchase and sale of real estate.
Royalties.
By an amendment to this section
which would plug the loopholes
mentioned. Carter believes that at
least $3,000,000 in taxes would be
paid to the state by men best able
to pay them.
'Farming Out of Repair Work'
May Cause Tie-Up of
Railroad Traffic.
By < 'ARROLL BINDER.
Federated Pren.s Stuff Correspondent.
CHICAGO. April 25.— A nationwide
strike of the half million railroad
shop employes in protest against the
farming out of repair work and the
onsequent evasions of the labor pro-
visions of the transportation act be-
comes likely as a result of action
taken by the sixth biennial conven-
tion of the Federated Shop Crafts.
After heated debate lasting a day
and a half in the face of repeated
warnings as to the difficulties they
will encounter by international offi-
cers of the unions making up the
railway employes department of the
A. F. of L., the 500 delesatea unani-
mously adopted a resolution pointing
towards a strike.
Denounce Ernston-*.
The resolution describes the man*
ner in which the Esch-Cummlns act
was put on the statute books and the
compliance of the employes with that
law despite their dissatisfaction and
sets forth the defiance of the law by
80 railroads in all parts of the coun-
try which nevertheless availed them-
selves of provisions to their liking.
Flagrant violations of the law by
the Pennsylvania, New York Central,
Erie and many smaller roads are de-
scribed as the result of "carefully
laid plans of the great banking
groups of New York City led by tho
house of Morgan."
The resolution then puts the con-
vention on record as directing the
executive council of the Railway Em-
ployes Department to arrange for im-
mediate conferences with the IT. S.
Labor Board, "the object being to se-
cure the re-establishment of the
working conditions and wage rates
as they existed on any railroad prior
to the changes illegally made by
management pending decisions of the
board, and the Immediate assumption
of control, operation and manage-
ment of the shops now contracted to
outsiders, together with the re-es-
tablishment, with retroactive features
of the rate of wages and working
conditions as agreed to in confer-
ence or promulgated by the labor
board.
"If no satisfactory settlement Is ar-
rived at," continues the resolution,
"the executive council, mechanical
section of the department, shall di-
(Contlnued on l'ago Three.)
T
GUT
GATE
S TALKED
Admission of Profits Is Held
Partially Responsible.
I WASHINGTON, April 25. — Re-
j ports were current here today that
; the Inter-state commerce commission
j would soon order a number of re-
ductions in railroad freight rates.
The commission, it is declared, has
I been virtually driven to take some
j action by the admission that the
railroads are making profits in spite
I of wasteful management and delib-
I trate evasions of the regulations,
I w hereby expenses are Increased.
The reductions to be made, it is
believed, will not be of a blanket na-
j ture, but will apply to certain com-
j niodities only.
That the stimulated business which
j is expected to follow will mostly
| make up for any loss in revenue as
a result of the cut, is the belief of
| those in favor of the reduction.
U. 5. FLAGSHIP
G°ESJ0 CHINA
\ WASHINGTON, April 23. —The
flagship Huron of the U. S. fleet in
Asiatic waters, was on Its way to
china today, as a result of orders is-
1 sued by the government, following
! reports of disturbances in China.
Dispatches received thus far indi-
cate that the rights of foreigners j
have been observed despite tho un-
settled conditions there.
MORGAN TO BACK
GERMAN LOAN?
NEW YORK, April 25. J. P. Mor-
gan will go to Europe in May to
make arrangements to float a loan
for Germauy, it has been announced
here.
Morgan's decision followed an in- j
vitation by the allies reparations j
commission.
He declared he would consider to j
handle the proposition as a matter
lor international subscription, clti- J
zena of America and the allied coun-
tries bcitf* asked to participate.
IS
OIENT
EC
EASING
Connally Reports Many Men
Being Put To Work.
A marked improvement in the la-
bor situation in Oklahoma City is to
be noted in the report of the Federal
employment bureau here. Accordiug
| to Claude E. Connally, state labor
commissioner, the Broadway office
has placed a total of 793 men and
1'84 women from April 1 to 24. For
j the period from January 1 to April
L'4. there has been placed 3,99!> per-
I sons, of whom 1,152 were women and
2,847 were men.
"The fact that we have placed
more than 1,500 persons in the past
three weeks, shows an improvement
j in labor c onditions," < onnally de-
clared.
j Connally declared that 85 to 90 per
j cent of the men placed are common
l laborers.
A notable improvement is noted,
i jiccording to Connally, In the demand
i for farm hands. More than 250 farm
hands have been placed since Janu-
ary 1. "We are having some diffi-
! culty in filling the demand for farm
1 help. Some times a request for farm
! hands will have to wait two or three ;
days before we secure the help," he
d< dared.
The improvement in the oil fields, i
in which approximately 10,000 to 15,-^
000 men, who were out because of i
the drouth, have gone back to work,
has greatly increased the demand for
labor in the state, Connally said. j
Connally said that while there,
were plenty men in the state to take
care of all work that might develop,
there is a marked decrease in unem- j
ploy ment and that conditions are ]
gradually improving.
Farm hands are being offered $15 '
to $30 a month and board. A scarci-1
ty of labor would have a tendency to !
Improve wages, Connally declared, j
ED
IDS
EF
Because there was no i
evidence to prosent to the
Jury, inquest into the caus
death or Lee Fox, manage
Red Ball Transfer compa
continued until Monday, M
cording to R. L. Maupio,
county attorney.
A. W. Williams, coroner,
the continuance at the r<
Ma u pin.
litlonal
roner's
isslstant
anted
st of
President of California Uni-
versity To Rescue.
BERKELEY, Cal., April 25.—Greg-
ory Seraenov, Cossack butcher, has
one staunch friend in America,
though he may be hissed and jeered
In New York. That friend is Col.
David P. Barrows, president, Uni-
versity of California.
"Scmenov was a real friend to
American troops in Siberia," asserts
Col. Barrows. "In Russia all is fair
in war, regardless of any brutality
considered expedient in carrying out
an aggressive campaign. SemenoV
1 was heartless in his warfare against
1 the Bolshevik!" which presumably
i should earn him the eternal grati-
1 tude of all 10O per cent Americans.
"He is a brutal tighter, to whom
death"- anyone's death—"is a jest.
I He is not being treated fairly; he id
| a very much misunderstood man."
I Barrows gained ins military title
! by serving in the American invasion
; of Siberia. He has been conspicu-
ous as an opponent of free speech
land the labor movement, and under
| his presidency the greatest univer-
ity in the west has been marked
j by an extreme conservatism.
LIQUIDATION
LOWERS GRAIN
Following the liquidation of sever-
al million bushels of May wheat op-
tions held by speculators, the Chica-
go market went down with a thud
Tuesday and closed fully 5 cents less
than the opening price. Opening at
$1.46. May wheat declined rapidly un-
til it reached the low figure of
$1.40. A slight upturn just before
the close put it back to $1.41. July
wheat followed the weak May mar-
ket and closed 2c less at $2.27 1-8.
Kansas City May wheat followed
the trend of the Chicago market and
dosed at $1.2 J,_ , after opening at
$1.32 Corn and other grains all
showed declines.
ASSAULT CHARGE
Charge of attempted assault upon
Dorothj Depew, a little girl, wa«
filed in justii court of Leo B. White,
Tuesday, aga.nst F.I Suttle, arresu-d
Saturday. W. R. Withington, county
evidence attorney, tiled the charge.
Suttle made an application Monday
afternoon for a writ of habeas
Organized workers in Massachus-
etts are using a recent wages-by-
law award to support their conten-
tion th;it wage setting by this method
is leia .effective than trade unionise^
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