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Today
A Letter from Hearst.
Dangerous Transfusion.
Bankers as Doctors.
Great Hurry Explained.
Oklahoma Leader
<#FEARLESS AND TRUE"
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Vol. ^—N
No. 114
OKLAHOMA CUV. OKLA.. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1922
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V* reprodU'
\ iktecember 1'
Brisbane: J
t your "paragi
• about the linit
aore money to Eui «>e .
: Had result will be o |
mr i taxpayer.
,e you will kindly continue
Mil ..pns of this character. They
ft will help to arouse the people of
the Un' ed States to au exceedingly
dangerous ituat >11 that threatens
them at * nic ent.
Som( "W y rountry must be
ed ri nil these uncial drains,
wlflviffwill in *uce 11 to tl,e
conciitfon of the l; opean coun-
tries, or eveu mak us worse off
than they, through building them
up at oun expense.
"It is d matter - f the transfusion
of life blood from the stronger to
the weaker. You may take a strong
person and transfuse his blood into
a sick one but you can go so far
in b'oo rausiusi that while the
sick neisou -M. vveil the well per-
son tiles.
"We ca i, ia. in financial
tranBiustw^ %c will build up
Em ope auu i.iu«,e ourselves the
financially tick ones.
"This financial transfusion is not
made at the demand of the Ameri-
can people, but at the demand of
the International bankers, who
make their money no matter which
• patient expires.
"The American people do not
want to meddle In the affairs of
Europe. They have repeatedly made
clear in the elections that they
I want to follow the injunctions of
"( Washington and remain free from
foreign entanglements of all kinds.
"They have had one experience
with European complications, in
which they sacrificed their sons,
destroyed their prosperity, and
loaded themselves with burdens of
debt that will last for generations.
"The American people are not so
dull that they do not n«w under-
stand that Washington was right,
and why he was right.
"The American people--voted the
Wilson administration out of office
because President Wilson promised
to keep them out of war and did
not, and because he followed the
, lead of the international bankers
and tried to involve the United
States in foreign entanglements
through a league of nations
".Mr. Harding came Into office
1 pledged against the league orna-
* tions, and pledged specifically in
his platform and in his personal
utterances to follow 'the policies of
Washington,' which were to keep
free from entangling alliances and
International complications.
28 LOST IN OCEAN STORM
Former Mayor
Of Mer Rouge
Seeks Liberty
i
Officials Expect Arrest of Man Who Dynamited Lake to
Remove Bodies; Dr. McKoin Claims Innocence of All
Charges. • x
CI P. LEADERS
CHALLENGED Bl
Maiden Speech of New Sen-
ator Launches Verbal
Battle in Senate.
BALTIMORE, Md., Dec. 27.—Dr. prepared to apprehend a man they
B. M. McKoin, who was arrested charged with leading a group of
the Johns Hopkins medical dynamiters who located the bodies
school, following receipt of a tel-
egram from Governor Parker of
Louisiana, saying that McKoin was
wanted fofr murder, opened his fight
today to avoid return to Louisiana.
He had engaged Robert R. Car-
man, former United States district
attorney here, to seek his release
on a writ of habeas corpus.
Regardless of the murder charge,
he says he does not want to go
Dr. McKoin declares he left Mer
Rouge #long before Watt Daniels i
and Thomas Richards were seized
by a masked mob and murdered,
that he knows nothing about their
deaths and that before he left the
state he had appeared before grand
juries and other agencies of justice
and told what he knew .
Quick action by Louisiana au-
thorities to have Dr. McKoin return
to that state was indicated in a
tellegram from Governor Parker
to Chief Inspector of Police Henry •
today.
The telegram read:
"Hold Dr. McKoin for extradi-
tion papers, which will be sent
immediately. Many thanks."
Dr. McKoin was to be arraigned
in central police court today %and
formally ordered by the magistrate
to be held for the Louisiana au-
thorities. Following this it was
expected his counsel would seek
his release on habeas corpus writ. |
It is likely, however, the former
mayor of Mer Rouge will be held
at ieast ten days subject to orders .
of Louisiana. '
Governor Parker wired to Cap- (
tain of Detectives Charles A. Burns
a second time today asking that
McKoin be held for extradition
"Yet he no sooner got into office papers. An hour after his wire a
than he repudiated his pledges and Mer Rouge financial institution
entered into a Four-Power alii- j Wired , Dr. Hugh H. Young that
ance with England, France and ; they WOuld deposit in a Baltimore
Japan, an alliance whicn will at. j bank any amount of money needed
any day involve us in war when ! for McKoin's defense.
war shall arise through the war- while these counter moves were
proviking, imperialistic policies of bein„ made from a town which has
England or of France, or of Japan. | . n torn by disorders, attempted
"President Harding appointed ; assaBBinations and murders at
George Harvey ambassador to Eng- j -t b masked mobs, efforts were
land. Harvey was a democrat. He j t„rted berc to secure McKoin's
had no claim upon the republican . ' Qn a writ 0f habeas cor-
party. Neither had he any claim j ™ a '
upon President Harding, except
that he had represented the inter-
of McDaniels and Richards in a
fruitless effort to retary theni be-
fore discovery of the crime.
A search began In the Lake La-
Fourche section today for addi-
tional evidence against the dyna-
CHEFS READY TO START FIRES
For Barbecue Meat Which Must Be Cooked 26 Hours Before Serving to Guests
SIX HUNDRED ASSISTANTS TO AID BARBECUE COOKS
******************
"We'll be ready to begin cook- vouches for the authenticity of done. These will then bo loaded
ing meat before long" was the I l^e statement that it will be a
. , x . i f i> I "world-beater."
declaration Wednesday of I. H. | McCann „ Hn ex.COwpuncher
McCann, cbtf extraordinary and j an(j bas barbecued cattle on the
of the Walton
WASHINGTON, Dc. 27.- An open
challenge to administration lead-
ers in the senate that progressives
from the agrarian states of the mid-
dle and norlhwesi will join at the
commencement of the next con-
gress to wrest control from the
"regulars" in the senate and house,
was seen here today, following the
dramatic maiden speech of Senator
Smith Brookhart of Iowa.
i.u.iu. «HnShin. 1 Senator Brook I. art's opening
miters and for *^ 9peech contained statements of in,
j mense importance which were not
accepted in their full significance i
MEN WILLING TO [^^"V^red his speech.
" 'Senator Brookhart was ln-olosc:
conference with Senator La Fol-
lette. His speech is seen today as j
a frank warning that he will join
with La Follette, Shlpstead, Wheel-
er, Dill, Norris, Howell and other
senators in the new congress to
prevent the administration from
organizing the upper branch ot
congress.
Speakership Rattle ( tuning. 1
At the sam-t time, it made cer-}
tain a fight by about 50 progressive';
members of the loner hou^e, rally-
plenipotentiary
barbecue.
"You know it takes 26 hours
to barbecue meat properly," Mc-
Cann explained.
The mile-long barbecue pit
was completed Wednesday and
ready for the ♦raihloads of wood
which are to fill'the pit on the
plains of Texas when the wind
swept down the Cap Rock In the
Panhandle. McCann hales from
Pauls Valley. Ho comes from a
family of cowpunehers in West
Texas, where his father was a
ranchman for fifty years.
"The barbecue will go like
clockwork," McCann said. "We
morning of January K when the! will put the meat on the morn-
match will be lighted and the ing of January 8 after my thirty ing. 'I'll see that the pepper is
savory odor * of .roasting meat expert meat cutters have carved I used with discrimination and
will mount to Oklahoma's cloud- the carcasses now in storage at you'll see that the beef that
less skies. The biggest feed ever the packing plant. We will have mother used to cook will have to
held in the history of the world, 52 fireburners and 500 to pre- i take a back seat," McCann de-
McCann termed It. McCann | pare the meats after they are | dared.
into trucks and taken to the
various barns and buildings on
the fair grounds where the food
will be dumped down forty
great chutes into the buildings
and distributed to the thousands
of visitors who will be seated at
long tables in the fair ground
pavillions. We will have about
3,000 waiters."
McCann will be asisted by A.
W. Garrett and Tom Parker in
personal supervision of the cook-
and other bits
the dead men
KILL FOR STATE
FOUNu AT CANEY
pus.
Robert A. Carman, assistant dis-
tnat ne naa reiireseuieu iuc mici-1 llv . ..
national bankers at the Chicago toT
convention and had manoeuvred to started proceedings , *
secure the nomination of Mr. Hard- The hearings were postponed un-.
ing when the international bankers til tomorrow.
decided that Harding was the right ' n%i«nwti+«rl I nl/o !
man to nominate. McW WhO Dy itGCl LclKG
"Mr. Harvey has gone to Eng- flyf|ay Re Arrested S00n
land not as the representative of f M£R R0UGE. La., Dec. 27.—
the United States, but as the rep- /united Press.)—Mer Rouge anx-
resentative of the International ! louaiy awaited today the arrival of
bankers. , I its former idol, Dr. B. M. McKoin, |
"He is a scout, a sentry, an out- fomer inayor, charged by federal
post, stationed at London by the u with beinK the leader of a
International bankers to give them
word of what is going on in Eng-
lish international politics and in all
international politics of which an
ambassador would be informed.
agents with being
band of hooded men who terrorized
the community.
Authorities today charged Mc-
Koin w ith the murder of Watt Dan-
He is also there as spokesmaniels and Thomas F. Richards,
and propagandist. How fully his ! whose bodies were found in I^ike
public statements have represented LaFourche after being weighted to
the international bankers and how the bottom since last August, when
little they have represented the they were kidnapped by a hooded
sentiments of the people of America mob.
can be learned from the indignation Federal operatives brought
Three men have Wen found
in Oklahoma willing and even
anxious to press the elec-
tric button which will snuff
out the lives of the six men
now awaiting electrocution at
the McAlester penitentiary.
In a letter to The Oklahoma
Leader, the three men, all of
Carey, Atoka county, declare
that they are willing, if so per-
mitted, to take the lull respon-
sibility of electrocuting the
six men convicted of murder.
The men are Cecil Ford, G.
tf. Chapin and Ira L. Ford.
The brief letter, without giv-
ing any reason why the men
are jvilling to tnke the respon-
sibility of killing the men, de-
clares:
•'We the miller signed, if per-
mitted, would take the respon-
sibility from the good people
of Oklahoma by electrocuting
those men ourselves.*'
Ypparently the slate of Ok-
lahoma will not have the
trouble in securing an execu-
\ tioner which the state of Colo-
rado encountered several years
ago, when a convict remained
unhung several months because
no officer in the state could he
found willing to perform the
task.
Vfter waiting several months
and offering a liberal reward,
a man was secured la Indiana
and was brought |to the state
under the strictest secrecy.
Without divulging his name,
the man performed Ills grue-
some job.
CHILD GETS LEG
Fl _
Crippled Boy Has Limb With
"Knee and Ankle" Action.
WALTON BEHIND GIBBONS
FOR HOUSE SPEAKERSHIP
[MET! HELD1
See Number Three, Page Five.
OFF
BRITISH CAN'T
GIVEUPMOSUL
LAUSANNE, Dec. 27.-(United
' Press.)—Lord Curzon, British for-
eign minister, today sent a note to i
! Ismet Pasha, Turkish leader, de-1
OF FREAK CULT
Stovall Resents Statementsjciaring it is absolutely impossible Defendant Denies Huyhcs
That He Fiohts Walton. for 1)rituin to the Turkish de- i Testimony.
mands and cive un the creut Mosul I
rharged with the murder of Mar-
M. Garrett was
held to trial In the district court by
Exposure ot Dr.
Abrams Is Made
mands and give up the great Mosul
Boom! "Happy New Year." regions.
Governor-elect J. C.-Walton, in a Curzon said, however, that the n uinp e!
long-distance phone call Wednes- j allies will retrace the northern
• il. j day to his secretary, Aldrich Blake, frontier in conjunction with Turk-
ft 0erl announced his "extreme sratlfica- j isli experts.
tion and relief" to learn that his
NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—In San
1 friends had rallied to the support of I
Francisco there Is a doctor who Murray Gibbons for the speakership
claims he can tell your religion by i of the house. Walton further an-
a drop of blood or by your hand- | nounced that he hoped all Okla-
writlng. | homa had spent a Merry Christmas
Some people call him a wizard, an(l would have a happy new year,
the ••wonder of the 'eat "-a man | Wi(h Walton bringlng „„ the
with a machine called a 'sphygmo- «h
biometer" which performs miracles, heavy long-distance aiUllery. the
But Dr. Paul H. de Krulf, for- final drive for the fortifications of
meriy of the Rockefeller Institute, the house of representatives by the
writing i# Heart'a International rlval forces of Stovall and Gibbons
Magazine for January, exposing the ,
wizard of the Golden Gate,1 says it's f '
all nonsense—a new way to get I Walton is expected back Friday,
rich for Incapable doctors. friends declare, and his announce-
"In the past few years a modern ! ment over the wire leaves no
cult has arisen in the west. Its doubt as t0 hls gtan<i in the fight,
presiding elder is Dr. Albert b known tQ
Abrams of San Francisco. There
is no limit to his fantastic claims, i occupy the sidelines In a fight and
They defy all hitherto accumulated be is living true to form, it is ob-
knowledge, both In physics and inl®8"'611-
medicine. In spite of the essential- Meanwhile it is apparent that the
ly absurd nature of his doctrine, he democratic membership of
1. t Present having a tremendous 1L'.1for 0ne "de
and always growing popularity.
Leo B. White, justice of the peace,
at the close of his preliminary hear-
ing Wednesday.
The defendant took the stand in
his own behalf after the state had
rested and denied generally all the
testimony of the state's witnesses.
He admitted that he saw H. D.
Hughes and his wife at the corner
of Reno and Harvey streets, but de-
nied that he went to the negro
cainp meeting on South Broadway.
This was about the extent of his
corroborating state witnesses.
Martin Sumpter was hi-jacked
Financial Arrangements Re-
ported Made.
CHICAGO, Dec. 27.—With the fi-
nancial arrangements made, trans-
fer of Morris and company, packers, ' on juiy 10, and wns killed because
to the Armour company of Dela- |1C resisted, according to the testl-
ware, is expected to take place at m0ny of H. U. Hughes, a barber,
midnight December 31. j who lives at 22'J West Noble street,
Conference of leading Chicago jn jU8tice court of Leo B. White,
bankers who ;>r« handling the deal
for interested parties, are in con-
stant session at the Continental and
Commercial National bank here.
The purchase price will be $30,-
000,000.
People are stepping on each others
toes to get to his office for treat
ment and diagnosis. Doctors are
flocking to him for 'courses'
several weeks' duration."
Dr. Abrams' claims, according to
Dr. deKruif, are many and mar-
velous. Dr. Abrams says he is able
to tell an expectant mother from a
Perhaps no child
or the other, and unless claims of
candidates are overdrawn Gibbpns
has 52 and Dave Stovall 41 pledged
votes. Stovall denies Gibbons claim
saying that the Murray county man
has only 39 votes and that these
will not all "stick."
"I have more confidence in the
integrity of the legislators than to
believe that, once having pledged
me their support, they will go back
Oklahoma drop of her blood the sex of tier and vote agatns;
" ••• j Gibbons de-
City appreciated a Christmas gift 'hild; he can also. In the same c]are(j Wednesday. "Mr. Stovafl
more than Vernon Ashworth, 11- way. satisfy a suspicious man as to ,,vl(jen
vhether or not he is the fathe
SICK PRINTERS
TO COLORADO
New Hospital Building There COTTON CLOTH
Is Completed.
at the preliminary hearing of H. M.
Garrett Tuesday evening.
Hushes' testimony was sensa-
tional in many particulars and
tends to bear out the theory that
Sumpter was murdered for the (•
purpose of robbery. Sumpter was
known to have had a large sum of
money on the evening before his
dead body was found In tbo alley
between West Reno and Washing-
See Number Page 4.
80ATS BELIEVED
MISSING AFTER
AILANTIC GALES
Disturbances Declared by
Mariners to be Worst in
Decades.
LONDON, Dec. 27.—Twenty-eight
lives and five ships havo been lost
in terrific gales and hurricanes
raging in the Atlantic and aloug
the coast of England, according to
reports here today.
Toll of the storm continues to
grow as additional details of ita
fury come In from ports on tli$
western English coast.
The disturbances are extending
far into the ocean, battering and
buffeting even the strongest liners,
officers of vessels arriving from
tbo westward say.
The liner Celtic arrived from
America, passengers and officers
reporting the worst weather ia
thirty years in the Atlantic.
Havoc was played by the wind
and huge waves with smaller
coastal shipping.
i The captain of one battered
steamer that limped into port re-
ported bis wireless had picked up
three different distress signals but
wns unable to aid because of his
ship's condition and the S. O. S,
calls finally died out.
Freighters Missing,
Mew York Believes
NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—(United
Press.)—The storm tossing and
damaging ships in mid-Atlantic is
the worst for several decades, ac-
cording to officers of vessels ar-
riving hero today.
Practically all liners carrying
thousands of passenuers are from
a day to three days late. So fir.
however, no major shlpa have he«n
reported lost. Those reported
down In London dispatches are biy
lleved to be freighters.
The thrilling tale of rescue fjj
the storm of the British schooner
Gordon C. Fudge by the Atlantic
transport freighted Menominee was
told here today.
After the schooner's masts and
sails had been ripped away and
the hold filled with water, th«
Fudge's crew gave up all hop®.
Driven far off their course, the
crew manned the pumps in a last
desperate effort to keep afloat. The
Hrltish flag was blown away. Cap-
tain Fudge found an American flag,
however, and Inserted it on a
broken mast. It was this flag that
attracted the attention of men on
the Menomihee which was also out
of Its course. Despite the danger
the freighter was swung about and
with great waves ripping over her
decks her men succeeded in res-
cuing the schooner crew.
it I j
'(STATE'S HEALTH 1
BEST IN YEARS
and derision with which all of those
statements have been received by
the press and the public of his
country.
"Mr. Morgan has been abroad of
late arranging for a further gigantic
loan to Europe and for the inter-
vention of the United States in
European affairs.
"As soon as Mr. Morgan had
made arrangements satisfactory to
himself and to the other interna-
tional bankers, he pressed the but-
ton and Mr. Harvey spoke.
"Mr. Harvey said that the situa-
tion in Europe was worse than it
was during the war which is an ob-
vious misstatement, and that the
United States could not afford to al-
low conditions to remain as they
are in Europe, and must intervene.
"All of ^vhlch means that the
United States must in some way
sponsor the loan which is being
made and from which the Interna-
tional bankers get their large com-
missions and must again Involve
Itself and Its people.in dangerous
international complications.
When Harvey spoke the Hearst
newspapers interpreted his words
and stated exactly what his atti-
tude meant. They said:
"Ambassador Harvey's state-
ment that Europe is in the last
throes of dissolution, that condi-
tfian they were dur
more than Vernon Asnworin, n-i .«««*«• — evidently takes it for granted that;
year-old Oklahoma City boy who at-1 whether or not he is the father ot a legislator considers his word
tends the school for crippled chll-j his children. Still more marvelous, jjghtly for he has approached most!
dren. I from a drop of blood or sample of 0f my supporters urging them to j
Vernon, the son of a widow, had j handwriting, Dr. Abrams claims to cancel their proffered votes for me." j
a leg amputated just above the j be able to discover a subject's re- Stovall headquarters expressed
knee, and has been crippling around ligion and nationality! He can tell confidence Wednesday, claiming 41 j
light a dual personality in charging | on a makeshift of a leg. i from a sample of handwriting what signed pledges. Frank Boyer and j
the former mayor with heading a | Dr A I{ Lewis, state health com- > part of the world the writer is in, ; <;. .s. Long of Tulsa, W. S. Vernon
band of mysterious night riders. , missioner, who is taking particular and by a further analysis of hand- ( of Wagoner county, W. E. Disney ;
As a professional man, Dr. Me- iutereHt in crippled children whose writing, can determine wether the j 0f Muskogee and R. A. Singletary
Koin braved death and disease day parents have been unable to give writer is living or dead. These are 1
and night to administer to theism proper attention, purchased bUt a few of Dr. Abrams' remark- Sec Number *• raafe 7
townspeople, and often aided the j vernon a new "leg'' with knee and able accomplishments, says Dr. de-
negro families, his alleged band ankle action which 1s almost as Krujf
good as the original. "jjy means of a mysterious ma-
The boy couldn t get around at chine, called 'Oseilloclast,' Dr. Ab-
school and while the $150 spent on rams profe8BeB to be able to cure
the boy is the most we have ever pancer tuberculosis and many-
spent on any crippled child we be- Qther d|seaBe .. sayH Dr. deKruif
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27. Exports
wasi bent on terrorizin!
With the arrest of McKoin the
investigation here was rapidly ap-
proaching a climax. Federal agents
HAMON ESTATE
SUED BY KELL
GAS COMPANIES
START LAWSUIT
lieve that It is worth much more
than that to the boy," Dr. Lewis,
declared.
MUSKOGEE. Okla.
Dec.
And this machine, according to the i Suit has been brought in United
writer, resembles nothing so much ! Watet. district court here by The
as one of the weird apparatuses ; Natural (.as c
MUSKOGEE. Okla.. Dec. _
(United Press.)—Estate ot the late |
Jake L. Hamon was named defend-'
ant in a petition riled here, asking
{80,000, with interest from Novem-
ber 18, be returned to Frank Kell,
Wichita Falls oil man.
CHICAGO ASKED
TO R AISE LIMIT
ON SKYSCRAPERS
the weird appar
Rube Goldberg depicts in his inimi
table cartoons.
CHICAGO, Dec. 27. — (United |prCss.)
Kell was formerly connected with }>reKS-)—Three massive skyscrapers i Davis has agreed to abandon
Hamon in building the Dublih-Jlm- . lowerlng high above the tallest of i plans to hold the inauguration cero-
kurn railroad through the Stephens Chicago's present office buildings, | monies in the citv auditorium and
county Texas oil field. i were projected here today. the inauguration will be held in popping the gas supply, relmburse-
ompany and
_!.!obn M. Landon, its receiver, the
Marnet Mining company and the
Empire Natural Gas company, who
POULTRY SHOW CROWDS
KANSAS INAUGURATION Action was first contemplated, it
I was said, when the Owen-Osage
TOPEKA Kan Dec 27. (United company obtained cancellation of
Governor-elect Jonathan (contracts under which they fur-
nlshed gas to the Kansas Natural
and Marnet companies.
Other than damages caused by
The $80,000 represents money j Permission to erect the tallest! the gfate eapitol building
paid out by Kell, It is claimed, in church building in the world was i been th<: custom in the past,
settlement of a $100,000 judgment j obtained from the city council by. The city auditorium was procured
|gainst the Hamon-Kell partner- Chicago Methodists. The new build- ' when Davis requested that no spe-
jsbip. j ing, to be erected near the center - cial invitations be sent out and that
of the downtown business section, *ever>one be invited. Then it was
j will rise to a height of 556 feet. discovered that the annual. Kansas
The regulation height for Chi- poultry show would be held here
If 11 I IF D IN C* ft A ca8°'8 skyscrapers has been limited ;0n inauguration day and that the
iiiJLLjL'ls ill vll^lkJii by the city to 400 feet. Lifting a ; poultry men planned to use the
■ restriction in this case is expected J auditorium.
ARDMORE. Okla., Dec. 27. — | to open up a new era of skyscraper '
ment for i
i included in the
etitlon.
equipment is
COLORADO SPRINGS, < olo.,
Dec. 27.—Physical wrecks among
younger printers in future will find
a haven in the Union Printers'
Home here, as well as those grown
aged at case and machine. Quarry-
ing of stone for a new hospital
building has been started and con-
struction work will be rushed.
Sufferers from locomotor ataxia,
cancer and various forms of par-
alysis will be admitted to the home
when the hospital is completed.
Only printers buffering from con-
tagious diseases will be barred.
'Ml Patients l.ong In.
Since the establishment of the
home in 1892, members of the
union afflicted with ailments cal-
culated to make them helpless have
been denied admission to the print-
ers' home. Tuberculosis, a disease
to which printers are peculiarly
susceptible, was recognized as a
prime enemy before 1897, and in j yartjH valued at
that year a sanatorium was*erected j November.
at the home. j For the eleven months* period
Recently the board of trustees, j exports >f cotton Hoth totaled
according to J. W. Hays, secretary- 546,398,370 square yards valued at
treasurer of the International Ty- $78,611,486 compared with 511,-
pographical union, reached the con- f.82,641 square yards, valued at
elusion that it was unfair to deny j $66,185,345 for the sam
aid of the home to print
Smallpox and Diphtheria
EXPORTS DROP Have Disappeared.
I With practically all of the small*
I pox cases in Norman, Ardmore and
Iliackwell recovered and quaran-
tine lifted, and the gradual dlsaji-
pearance of diphtheria In the state,
the general health of the people ot
Oklahoma is the best In years, ac-
cording to Dr. A. R. Lewis, stats
health commissioner.
Little or no sickness has been re-
ported from any section of the
state, Dr, Lewis declared Wednes-
day. The favorable weather, he de-
clared, was largely responsible for
absence of sickness which is
time ot
Ithe yeH
continued to climb during Novem- j
ber, exceeding October exports by
60,000 bales, the department of |
commerce announced today.
Exports of cotton cloth dropped 1
off ten per cent In November. |
Exports of cotton during Novem-
ber totaled 858,337 bales, valued at!
$109,387,719 compared with exports
for last November of 648,695 bales,
valued at $64,254,708.
For the eleven months ended)
with November 14, cotton er ports j generally prevalent at this
were 5,509,960 bales valued at
$593,529,727 compared with 5.584,-
830 bales valued at $472,467,525 for'
the same period last year.
November amounted T CHECKER CONTEST
square yards, valued at $7,144,841, ■
FOUR REMAIN IN
| compared
53,421,655 square
56,647,882 for last
WILSON'S BIRTHDAY
ARDMORE FLYER
WASHINGTON. Dec. 27.
row will be Wood row-
happiest birthday since he
great Ideal the League
-Tomor-
Wllson's
saw his
of Na-
abled by disease, who had for years
contributed to the support of the
home. Money being available, the
hospital project w as undertaken.
DUST BLAST
HURTS MANY
With Roy Cutlep of Tecumseh,
Janes Graves of Stillwater and 1*3.
H. Smith of Norman eliminated
Tuesday night, the state tourna-
ment for the checker championship
of Oklahoma, narrowed to four
players Wednesday.
The contest for the elimination ot
2 period last tNV0 more of the four remaining
year. (players will be completed Wednes*
— ' — — 'day night. The players remaining
FARM COMMITTEE J
PROMISES ACTION
Salisbury, who is an ex-champion
I of the state, played a hard fought
Filial action on all of the pro- contest with James Graves Tues-
posed legislation in the interest of day night, defeating Graves by a
the farmers of the state, by theag- | score of 1 to 0 with three draws.
rlcultur.il committee of 21, was ex-; Lon Emo, Cushing, is the present
pected W< ln< day or Thursday. jstate champion, but has not ap-
es working
will be recomn
elect Walton fc
!'°nnilr wW!rr?n,inth?,i,lAmerrca on -I * •••"" v"~ ' The regulation helisht for Chi- I poultry show would he held here j happient birthday ulnce he saw hill K \NStfS I 111, >ic.„ i ec. a jolls b)n
L 1 fL I' , Mv h*Sd«M Nf f J?n IV TBi (gP*0'1 ik}Kr>|i$i liu Inw IUt4|oii Inauguration da) and that the great Ideal the League of Na- namlier «l worker, were reported
not a'f0 nri'i i\l LLILU ill vA/iiJiJ by the city to 400 feet. Lifting a j poultry men planned to use the Hons- cast Into the scrap heap by Merioiinly Injured ill a dust explosion , onsideration
^andaTthe Interests restriction In this case Is expected iudltorlum. ithe senate. In the SchrellM-r flour and cereal „,Kht
p «u J1Hnnoi hunbaru whnm ARDMORE. Okla., Dec. 27.- to open up a new era of skyscrapef , Attaining the age of 66 years at- company plant here today. their work.
M iJarJfv Vnrvpd whpn -I nub- ! United Press.)—Carl Saunders, 21construction ; I' is said that the daughters of 'er a stole battle to regain his The plant broke Into flames and The varloui
Mr. Jiarvey Hnrvnv nerved Wfls k I lied and Kerm Dillard, 25. The new Chicago Tribune build-[live hundred of America's richest i health, the white haired leader of spread to a number of large Indus- datlons to ti:
lisnei ana n ,lomjnnfim' rnn- was seriously injured when the air- ing will soar to a height of 650 feet | men have married titled foreign- America during the war now sees trial plants nearby, following the lowing thoir
at tne repu c io • 'plane In which they were riding If the board of aldermen will dls- ers, and that their aggregate dowry his shattered dream of the Versall- (explosion. , mittees in charge, will h
approval by
▼eutlon in Chicago, and whom he
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crashed from a height of 100 feet j pense with the 400-foot rule, Trlb-lfalls little short of three-quarters I leu
•sterday. Doth men lived here, june announced. a billion dollars. | true
treaty ffght "partly
coming One report was thai K
were injured ia {(lie hlasU
persons j passed upon by the
I a wholr
peared to contest for the state
nd- ! medal and will, as a result, have to
his I surrender medal to the w inner io
Tuesday | the present contest.
complete ; The winners in the finals, which
will be decided Wednesday, will
commen- play ten games for the state cham-
lect, fol- pionship Thursday.
the com- I Til contest is being held in the
read and I V M. < . A. building. The tourna
uittee as ment has beei^ in progress since
I Monday.
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