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Vol. 2—No.78
Oklahoma Leader
"FEARLESS AND TRUE"
full Leased Wire United Press ft e port—Member federated tress.
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA., MONDAY. NOVEMBER 14, 1921
PH1CE ONE CENT!
TALKING IT OVER
BY
OSCAR AMERINGER
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The United States senate
has again voted to maintain
secrecy of the income tax re-
turns. Senator LaFollette pro- j
posed an amendment that the}
shall constitute public records
and be open to inspection as
such under the same rules and
regulations as govern the in-
spection of public records gen-
erally.
Now wouldn't that beat you ?
Why should we taxpayers
hanker for more publicity re-
garding our incomes ? We have
too much publicity now. What
we want is more income and
,iess publicity.
When the tax sharks want
to find out how much John
llodcarrier is pulling down per
ti." Oration to Fight Issue to
kids from the total and send Be Formed at Tuesday
him a dun for the rest. Night's Meeting.
When they come out to it
farm they count the COWS, find | 1'orroation of an organization to
out how many will be fresh ; fjstlt th(, "exorbitant $7,100,000 city!
before tax time and add the jgsue- jS planned for Tuesday
calves. They crawl under the ;:30 ln the counIy court_
house to see it rido is tagged :
and count the chickens in the 70m. according to an annou**mont
, . , signed by citizens, including repub-
mcubator befoifle they are ^ and democrat8i who (leclaro
hatched. \ hat moie publlClt} tha.t taxpayer will be crushed if
do we WtotT the new bond issues through and
who den^ that there is any possi
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Victory For Bonds Means Still Higher Rents
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KEAID
HERRICK FILES LIBEL SUIT
«'ungressman .Manuel Uerrick
filed suit for $50,000 against the
Oklahoma Publishing company
in the district court here. Mon-
day.
Congressman Merrick alleged
that libelous articles were
printed in the company's publi-
cations.
He declared they published a
picture purportiug to he his
home, when it was in reality bi^
thicken house, situated a short
distance from the residents.
He alleges that the articles
printed had a tendency to pre-
vent any desirable woman from
wanting to become his wife. The
plaintiff, it is declared, is un-
married. but eligible, and willing
when circumstances are right.
CONGRESS WILL DECLARE
FOR A "NAVAL HOLIDAY";
POWERS ACCEPT DEMAND
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'RESIDE
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Obregon Forces
Moving on Cantu;
Rebels Are Slainl
01 course when a man has ^ility of "accomplishing through ti
an income that runs into mil-1 proposed projects the desired tm-
lions it is only right and proper I provements in the city water
that the government should j sewage system.
keep mum about it.
You see if it were noised
about how many shekels some
people rake in per annum their
poor relations would bother the
lives out of them.
It is the duty of the govern-
ment to protect its leading citi-
zens from annoyance. And if
this involves the loss of a
couple of billion dollars the
loss can easily be made up by
taxing people who are too poor When the bond backets tell you that
to have relatives. the'eitys debt is now but 95,575,000.
* * • they are telling only a half truth." 1
.Montenegro has entered an At the mass meeting Tuesday a
alliance with its late enemies, perinament organization will be
the Albanians, and declared rormed and an investigation into the
war against its late allies, the various project will be started.
Servians "The rosy promises as to pure wa-
The principal industry of the ter cannot be fulfilled." declared (
Montenegrins is goat stealing
and from this we may deduct
that they went on the warpath
against the Servians to get
Those back of the anti-bond move
are Byron B. Shear. Dr. J. B. Rol-
ater. Charles B. Selby, Toi^ Bodine.
Dr. J. W. Fisher. N. C. ( rain. Pat
Roden. Dr. A. K. Spriggs, Goerge
Eacock. A. N. Munden, A. W. Mc-
Williams. George E. Swisher, and J.
R. Keatou.
"The city is already burdened with
a bond debt of over $lo.0U0.000. ' de-
clared J. R. Keaton. Monday. "This
includes the city's share of the
:ounty debt and the school debt.
Solons Will Turn Down All
Navy Requests Until After
Conference. Is Leaders' As-
surance.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14. The navy
department will go ahead building
war-ships until the word comes from
the international arms conference to i
stop. Secretary Denby declared to- ;
day.
"BEST
M
American Stand Against An-
glo-Jap Treaty Will Be
Presented Soon.
Keaton. "If you will go over the
flies of the Qklahoman and Times
at the time of the last water bond
issue, you will find them telling the
people the same story they are tell-
their goats. jng now about saving on bottled
Montenegro is a mountain-i
ter, saving on insurance, etc. Pure
country of the size of Dewey water cannot be obtained from the
COUIlty. But if the wrinkles present source of supply. I would
were ironed out it would take favor a moderate sum to repair the
in as much territory as Kansas, j 'lam until such time as an adequate
Before the world war Moo- water supply can be arranged for.
tenegro spoiled a king by the "The increase in rents which will
name of Peter, who petered out I toilow the high taxes to .<ome will
completely after he joined !!!!
hands with the czar and the
copyright 1921, United Pres*
WASHINGTON. Nov 14. <1. P.) WASHINGTON, Nov. 14. The
Congress will declare a "naval j Anglo-Japanese alliance must be
holiday" until the arms parley ends scrapped.
in success or failure, the leaders of This, it was learned on high au-
, , , . thority today, will be the stand of
both houses said today. „ tA , * 4 .
i he I nited States government when
During that time, no appropriation |)roblcnlB ot lh(. Pacific ami far east
of any sort for America's sea forces ;ire taken up by the confcrence on
will be made as another evidence of limitation of armament.
America's sincere desire for arms 1 The position of the United States | jn
limitation. on the alliance between Great Britain
Not a dollaar will be allowed by i and Japan will be stated some time
the house appropriation committee during the conference in just as un-
for any naval purpose, despite the equivocal and frank terms by Secre-
fact that the annual estimates for tary Hughes as the head of the
the sea forces are scheduled to reach, American delegation put forward the
congress early next month and a program of America for cutting the
request for a deficiency appropria- great naval armaments of the world,
tion of $27,500,000 is before the com- it was confidently expected here to-
mittee. Representative Kelley. Mich- [ day. This may be done tomorrow.
igan, In charge of naval appropria- The question of the Anglo-Japa-
tions, said. ne6e alliance, however, is a greatly
The senate can pass no appropria- different one than that of fixing a
Hughes' Plan For Destruction
of Warships Is Acceptable
in Principle to Foreign Del-
egates.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 14.
Arthur J. Balfour intends, in a
speech tomorrow before the arms
limitation conference, to virtual-
ly accept the whole Hughes arms
c ut program.
British naval experts' exami-
nation of the American program
gives them the conviction that
too much submarine tonnage is
allowed. Experience of the world
war they hold, would warrant
cutting the Hughes figures in
half.
World War Veterans Present
Appeal for Socialist to
President.
w vsiumitiin, n«i. ii. (Bj
' I . P.) An earnest appeal for
Hie release of r.iitreac V. IM *
and other "political prisoners'*
was placed before President
Harding today foj delegations of
world war veteran* which in-
cluded t'he nodal of honor men.
'We ask for their release an a mat*
• ter of simple justice, since no pos-
sible purpose can be served by im-
j prisoning them longer," the soldiers'
Parrish Says Dying Man Told
Him Mrs. Edwards Tried
To Give Poison.
I
Thai pistol and poison were em-
ployed by Anuabelle Edwards in kill-
ing her husband, was the sensational
statement of George Parrish. state
| witness put on the stand Monday in
; the trial "t th«- widow of Billy Ed-
i wards.
Parrish testified to a dying declie-
! ration which he Held Edwards made
petition said in part.
"These men were moved by the
same ideals which moved us. They
differed from us only as to method
of achieving tho.e Ideals. We a. ,-or.l |to !"' "> « ®ccu«etl hi.
to them the same right to follow the
dictates of their faith and conscience
as we lake for ourselves."
! Some of the men in the delegation
had been decorated for bravery by all
allied governments.
vlfe
the r
she
WASHINGTON. Nov. 14. (U. P.)
Bfitish and Japanese acceptance
modified form of America's
comprehensive program for limita-
tion of naval armaments appears
certain, according to semi-official
information here today.
All the delegates at the parley
were eagerly awaiting word from
London and Tokio. The belief pre-
vailed that Britain might make a re-
ply to the American program at the Federal Judge Van Vleet today,
plenary session tomorrow. i The indictment of the firms, fol-
"Acceptance in principle"—already lowing the Ixjekwood investigation,
shown by the spokesmen for the charged conspiracy to fix building
of his murder
"When I
shot twice." Edwards \
have declared. "The first shot
missed. She got me the second time.
I went down stairs, then I staggered
back. She put the pistol in my
stomach and snapped it twice. It
llllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllll I failed to go orr Then she tried to |
pour poison down my throat."'
Uprising Declared Financed!
By American Gamblers with I
Concessions in Lower Cali-|
fornia.
By United Press.
SAN LUIS. . Mexico, Nov. 14.—
ri volution against th< Obregon gev<<
ernment ot M< xi< o whi< h broke old
in Lower California yesterday, 1
j reported today to have spread
Sonora.
rhe revolt, resulting in a «la n |
with Mexican regulars within
miles of the American boundary, ml
which at least twenty were killed.[
vsaid i11 be headed by Kstahaul
< antu, foimet governor, and virtual!
dictator of Lower < allfornia during]
'he ■ .hians« ie|ime
Obregon reinforcements
l"'111 1 uah«d Low* r < alifornlg]
and 8onora and mobilisation of i
Unionists was reported .it varlottSi
as all.ee,1 to|~ ""lut* <'"Se ,bc An""''
The revolution alleged to he
n*nc«<i larg<ly by Ameileans with|
hugr Intel ; in Low.i ' allfornia.
Including big gamblers had beenl
brewing foi eek i he first ;.rmed|
scarred yesterday in San
vw a ■ ■ ■ ■■ Ifi ■ a | pour poison down my throat. ' • ' au xn"
Rill ETINS ""
™ *** i _, 11,1 Juann. the famous ooriin- run.
Moman Prulett
lefeu.e attorney, 17'" i*"M"nr,lnw
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll ;ixkeil Parrish about his all*-e<ll2 California border. While
>••> nil Of ti. I v -tilll
NEW YOHK, Nov. ti. (B> I'. P.) operation of .unblln
rifty-three tile, mantle and terro- i ^*an's
I never operated i
, otta firms recently Indicted «111. , pIac0> wllh Kdwardll ■■ ,.(,tortwl P:lr.
cither building material concerns on rlsh.
Charge of violating the Sherman j
ARDMORE PROBE
TO RE STARTED
laboring man might gain through the
xpenditure of the entire $7,100,000
ithin the next two years.
Even 6 per cent bonds offered by
es with a smaller debt than ours
can not sell at par. The only way
they could sell Lhe proposed bonds at
kings of Rumania, Italy ind
England in the late enterprise
of making the world safe for 0jtij'a
democracy.
After the "Huns" invaded
his country Peter moved to par in by an illegal subterfuge." de-
Paris where he lived, until his clared Keaton.
death, from the proceeds of the
thrift stamps that were sold to1
the school children of Beckham.
county.
'-Further information regard-1
...„ ^sntenegro.may be found j
in the treasure department of
our governnie.il which hold:~
about seven million dollars of i
notes signed by King Peter be- Thir[| Decision Handed Down:
fore he beat it and beat us.
The notes are printed on
EOF
good paper and if baled prop-
erly may fetch as high as six-
dollars per ton.
Appeal to United States
Is Expected Now.
TOPEKA, Nov. 14. The Kansas
' supreme court has just handed down
, the third of the Alexander Howat
"May I suggest that the se- casc8 Two of th„ nlroady
lective draft in industry is not iiave gone to the supreme court of
a draft at all, but vounte^rinp t|if> united States, and it Is expected
in mass." this one will be appealed, as there
* * is a new point raised in it.
A German chemist claims to Howat and the district board
have invented a poison gas I called a strike in the Patton mines
that will kill insects when it is because the compan; was not em-
blown over growing crops. For ploying sufficient men The strike
heaven's sake let us keep that was ' violation of the industrial
fellow out of this country. We court law and als injunction
are starving alreadv on account ,by A " ' llrran' pro-
of our bumper crops.' h",'i"n" "owat from filing.trlkes.
When Howat was brought before
_ ,, Judge Curran for contempt, a fine
Cotton slumped six dollais 0J- $200 was order *d. Then Judge
per bale the other day. ^ Rea- Curran took a new Step and ordered
son: The boll weevil didn t eat Howat to give bond of $5,000 that
enough and the extremely ta- be would not violate the injunction
vorable fall weather caused the order or the industrial court law
farmers to pick too much, pending his appeal. This bond re-
Remedy: Diversify. Raise quirement was a new point in the
more weevil and less cotton. lesal proceeding*. The supreme
court today sustained the order of
The Western Canning asso- Judge rurran.
nation sends warning to house-
wives to stock up on canned V0«K' ,*< ■ B!,-' ^
, ... . . _ „ The gasoline launch Llsie K, with
goods right now, as a ten per e M or n|ne fi6hermrn ahoari, was
cent raise is unavoidable on ac- raiBHinK Iodajr Hud was !ieIlfvl.j
count ol the shortage of cf>rn li;ne |0„t
at Eea off the Sheeps-
and fruit. No wonder corn is bad Bay fishing ground*
getting short. The farmers are police craft searching for the
burning it because it is cheaper ; launch since midnight, had found no
than coal. . I trace of her.
tion bill unless it is first approved !limit on naval armament and reduc- British and Japan may be recorded ' material prices here and alleged that
by the house, Kelly said. Senate ing the present great naval estab- with tomorrow's plenary session of, 'his conspiracy was one cause of tin-
leaders ore thoroughly in accord 1 lishments. the arms conference, leaving desired housing shortage.
with the house plan. modifications for further discussion. —
NaM Planned Request* M. Y. COTTON MARKET The main stumbling block but by WASHINGTON, Nov II (U. P.i 1
Before the plan was revealed th« TREND IS IMPROVING "" insuperable obstacle is Escape from prosecution ol prof-
navy department, it was learned to- Japan's anxiety over disposition of iteers who grafted on the federal |
day, had planned to ask congress NEW YORK Nov. 14. Decided im- the Far Eastern question. government just after lhe war was
for an appropriation of approximate- provement in cotton was attributed A second consideration with the halted today when the senate ex 1
ly $405,000,000 for the next fiscal to heavy short covering on bettey the Japanese is to avoid so large a tended the statute of limitation from j
year, beginning July 1. 1922. feeling created by the Washington naval cut as Hughes proposed. An'three to six years.
The appropriations for the present conference on armaments. eventual fleet 70 per cent as large The house has already passed the |
year Is 5414,000,000 exclusive of the First prices were 13 to 30 point- as America's or Britain's is sug- hill and it now goes to the president j
$27,500,000 additional recently asked, higher which gain was quickly ex gested from the Japanese side, in- The three-year-llmit expires foi
The estimate no doubt will be held tended to 48 to 56 points above Sat stead of sixty per cent as proposed practically all of the profiteers within :
(Continued on T'ago n.) 1 urday's finals. I'.\ l*MrA'r!.s: ^
Howat Replies To Lewis
In Jail, Columbus, Kan., Nov. 4, 1921. ras™*ro%h"t |.i ti
So the mine workers of the country may not be deceived ..,,i u„
by the many false statements that are issued from time to •!
time by President Lewis and Van Bittner, I have decided to ^|""'re rMPor""11'
write a statement of facts so that the mine workers may know i hmr airc d> n
the truth. Ml^"0,ti,aV'? ha"
First, I may say the action taken by President Lewis in ,'Mllrr'e,
suspending the autonomy of our district, without the lea-t ■ -t pi-
justification for doing so, is the most cowardly and dastardly
outrage that has ever been perpetrated against the Labor Move- .
ment in the history of the country. Such action by Lewis at have id< i*an . i
this time should brand him as a traitor to the cause of labor, -'j' .
Lewis tries to justify the action he* ~ '
Grand jury probe of alleged
tax law enforcement In Ardmore,
' arter county. was ordered by
Gov. J. B. A. Robertson Monday.
The decree followed com
plaints made by citizens of bar-
ter county last week, that viola-
tions of the law went unprose
cuted and the authorities were
tolerating numerous Instances of
criminality in Ardmore.
Resolutions were passed bv
churches there Sunday, cbaru
ing that prominent church work-
ers were owners of buildings
used for questionable purposes.
., . | n the
alleged
in doubt. i i,ast .1 R<ore of dealUI
! were reported.
"" ,lin-' 1 The boiiies fir f. II federal troopsI
were brought Into 1 I
night a(«ording to cu toms officend
1 Juana as \irtually deserte#|
today. At Tecate, six mile^ east
San Olego, Cal.. more than a thou-
and refugees were aid to havel
I
500 Mcxlcan fed< rals was repbrted to|
have l.iiidfd (in tlie west coal
I Lower California and to be hurrying
'"w '11 the troubb ?one in t« n-ed|
marches. Another conting
said to be moving northwe,
Sonora.
I
I oucessio
Valuable concossions hf by
tain Interests in l^ower allforni
during f'antu's regime for which I
was paid heavily, were cancel"
when President Obregon forced hi
out of office, ( antu fled to Ca
fornia. Recently he was said
have established a jup«i in < entu*
cts of the i
it the men
were laid
company
Thirteen Women On
Arbuckle Jury Panel
J|
has taken by saying the joint wage
agreement is being violated with im-
punity, and the laws of the organiza-
tion transgressed, and because the
Dean and Reliance mines were still
Peun
of this
a) co
ouble
ation under the
prevailed there i
refused to do so.
It has alwayi
agreed hy the re
idle, he found It necessary to sub- h. thnt neither
pend our district, and declare all the ! ustoin <>>
officials removed from office. He also lhlf" 1 ls"
, i ioth sides
says he will not permit the opera- ,na,j, |n
torh^fo impose new conditions on the arbitrarily
men at the Dean and Reliance mines. ' onditif.iiH
If Lewis was sincere when he made PRnizatl01'
that statement, then it is strange to
say the least, that up until this time.
neither he or any of bi.s representa-
tives have accepted the offer con-
tained in my letter to Dalrymple and
custom that ha.
understood
stives of Dis
ould change
the
tion
up. provided by contn
I also desire to call
to the fact that I went i
tried to take this quest
superintendent of the <
.eordance with the provisi
Steele, board members from district .rarf j>ul .jeiiberatei
21 and 25 The letter was writteu and left me. end refuse
to the two board members after they question dispute. 'Hi
had instructed me to order the men deliberai. v'ioUtlor'
to return to work at the Dean strip He should ha'.e taken
mine. The letter follows:
nless it v'bh agreed i
i such changes would
< case the company h.
Isted oil imposing tie
the members of our r,
thout the least Justiflc
,AUrl tablished custom
tiift%i tree that they
mpany, in
ons of our c
• walked av
1 nt<
ti pie. Mr
Bo;
: th*;
Me
havi
: «■ it>«IUUSi>4«n' 0[ I
The above letter was written in
April, 1921. Neither Dalrymple or
Steele ever made any replj to my
'letter. Later on Alien lhe Reliance
Mine was shut down, no investiga
tion was made by any member of the
Internation Vvecutive Board. The
officials of the miners and opera-
tors of District 14. were called to
Indianapolis and appeared before the
Board, and made a tateinent of the
. . ase, and the international officials
took the word of the operators.
;igainst that of the duly elected of-
ficers of District 14. and this is one
of the cases, on the mere statement
of the foal Operators, that President
Lewis felt it necessary to suspend
our District, and tell its that we
were no longer the officials of tin
district.
We made the sauie offer at the
Reliance Mine, as at the Dean Mine,
to instruct the men to return to
work under the old conditions. I
made the statement to the Interna
tional Executive Board, but it wat of
no avail. They refused to accept it
There is no use In Lewis and
I'eck trying to dodge the real issue
in connection with this question any
longer, by using one subterfuge af-
ter another, as a pretext to try and
justify themselves in the cruel and
I cowardly action they have taken m
stabbing twelve thousand mine
workers In the back. The mine
workers will readily understand.
1 when Lewi and Peck and the coal
want to establish any new condi-
tions, and at the same time refuse
to accept the offer we have made on
(Continued on Page 3 ;
SAN PR A NCI SCO. Nov. 11. (V, Before the trial opened both sides
P.I Women may be chosen on the ' issued statements.
jury that is to tr; Roscoe Patty' "A girl entered Roscoc Arburkle'l
Arbuekle on a charge of man- room and when she came out she
killiu
in connection with the
Brady
"W«
As the trial of the comedian op- j sponsible for
ened today, it was revealed that the The defen
names of thirteen women are In the - n the basis
first panel of sixt
'!<! Li V-'Tne J
ie\e Roscoe Arblickle re-
the
*ath.
jurors
Behind the technical charge of
manslaughter, which can mean ten
i |
f her all<ged past life
prospective The past ol that beautiful girl is not|
an issue. It Is being used to fog
denied
iirs imprisonment for Arbuekle, attacking Miss Rappc:
lies the fact that movie morals ai
"We merely want to show th
n, bud
uethingl
J
''ian because |
Men who have millions invested in ; tion
the film industry admit that on the A
guilt or Innocence of Arbuekle. bang aroi
important results to the motion pic- control tb< crowds f rything disagrl
ledj < Ttut
uade me te ~
Ten Die In GotK?^i
Tenement Flames
NEW YORK. Nov II. (By P. P
Ten persons were reported killed | men. Post
and one fatally injured in a tene-
ment house fire at 108 West Seven-
lUSt I
)SS the street The dead were
found «>n the fourth floor, where they
were evidently overcome by smoke
buildiu
burned their sex could not be deter-
mined. The list Of dead reached ten out .<nd spread with great rapidity
wheu a man who had leaped from a | sweeping from floor to floor. Mci
third floor window died In a hospital. : 'iid women hung from windows i n«;
Many occupants of the tenement, a huddled on narrow ledges. Fifteen
five-story boarding house located at I were removed from a copint: ou th|
los West Seventeenth street were second floor by postofflce clcrlu
ov roome by smoke and rescio-d by|w*ith a twelve-tool ladder.
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