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Oklahoma Leader
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Vol. 2—No. 113
oklahoma an. okla.. Saturday. December 21,1921
P1UCE ONE cen'i
IT OVER
TROOPS CALLED IN STEEL STRIKE
HI
Yesterday we carred the glad !
tidings that Debs would be lib-
erated together with a number j
of other political prisoners. To- j
day the press dispatches put a
damper on even this little bit j
of joy by declaring that none
of these prisoners are to be re-1
leased until Christmas day.
The entire country has been!
expecting action of this kind
from President Harding for ; Motorists Are Holdup Victims:
some time. And here at the ^ Rnmlit k Killed- Hp
last moment these men are de- Une Bai™ '; Ue
nied the privilege of spending tecilves orlOi.
Christmas with their loved i
ones at home. What kind of; a wave of crime, with hold-ups. I
a Christmas spirit prevails j shootings, and kidnaping*, strurk
among the official family at Now Yi>rk and Chicago Friday nigbt.
Washington, that they must Two men were killed, motorists were
insist on their pound "of flesh M-jacked, slugged and bound, ne-
even at this minute? Would toctives were wounded in a gun bat-
the safety and welfare of this "c wlth tan'lu" in Now Y"11'
country have been endangered
one iota by letting these men; Dee «.--A night o
spend the Christmas day with i "™<; wh><* Included a revolver duel
r . e . • 4 i at < hicagos busiest corner, State
their families at home? >nd Mail on BtreetR and a MB>000
• * j hold-up was climaxed early today by
'I he spirit flVldfillCfid bj this two bold hidnapings of wealthy
policy is about on a par with motorists.
the editorial comment voiced
in the Oklahoman today:
Eugene V. Debs may be
AMAZON ARMY" OF KANSAS COAL FIELDS ON THE MARCH
i
o
Victim I neolibelous.
Arthur C. Buth, a wealthy inventor
and manufacturer of flatirons of Des
Moines, Iowa, who was visiting rela-
tives here, was kidnaped, slugged
and robbed and left chained to his
auto on a bleak, blizzard swept
prairie on the outskirts "f the city.
He was taken to the German dea-
coness hospital where he recovered
.ypc . consciousness long enough to estab-
riVe earnestly and honestly and Huh his identity and again lapsed
sincerely trying to uphold the i Into unconc iousness Apparently he I p-gsident To Study Other 11F MUSN'T KNOW
best traditions Of the American had bean held up down town and I r,X ®' n:_ Mils iTiVLJii * _
people by insisting that the 'orced to drive to the outskirts of the
constitutional rights of the peo- ^ a ^ r ^ manufaC.
given a pardon for a Christ
mas present, but that would
be a poor Christmas present
for the country."
The country would be bettei
tiff if it had more men of the
type of Eugene V. Debs, who
Refusal of Witness To Answo
Questions Causes. Tem-
porary Halt.
Guns Obtained
By Bosses Of
Newport Mill
National Guardsmen Hear Machine-Gun Firing When They
Leave Train To Enter Area of Strike—"Un-
known Parties" Heavily Armed.
. (By l\
• Ku Klux
arter
NEWPORT,
.it uu lion iodaj.
Fo u compunie:
rived in the city
III tlx
Wives daughters and friends of striking miners of the Pittsburg. Kansas, coal lields. bound for the
fields manned by strikebreakers. The Kansas National Guard was called to protect the Lewis strikebreakers
against the rioting women. - r - ^ j r rr - - ^.-rr- ——
Expect Immediate Move
J f"n~y zn „ 1
Restore Citizenship
To Debs—Wife Patient
ARDMORE, Okla., Dec
P.)—An investigation ol' ti
Klan in Ardmore, cent«i
"old west" lawlessness
county was started hen t< '<.<> by
Attorney General Frrelin;
The purpose of the intestinal ion.
it was stated, is to learn if the klan
directed or participated in the at-
tack on the Joe Carroll home.
Freeling's investigation resulted
late yesterday in the refusal of Fred
Bourland. merchant and* alleged
klansman, to answer questions per-
taining to the klan during the Wil-
son triple murder case.
The attorney general secured a
continuance of the case until Tues
day to Rive him time to conduct the
probe.
Bourland was questioned after wit
nesses had declared the Wilson mur-
ders ocourred when two hundred ness" had existed s
masked men gathered in a pasture more than ten days.
I e "I. State
o quell disturh-
result of a strike
ok charge of the
charge
suns.
"Cnku
lit I b«
i) Morrow,
mill havt
obtained
u parties on the outside
of the mill arc heavily armed." he
irdsinen ar- «i«l. "and as u result of the firin-
early aftei- -eh •• 11 the two. lives of other cltl-
•ens are threatened
following a Machine (.mi Heard.
The fact that this condition has
ted for ten da> s i* evldeuc that
situation ha* uotteli beyoin. li<*
:1 control « l local authorities. So any
1 moment an outbreak may occur,
n The trooph are commanded by < ol.
II. II. Dentin nil
The troops were sent following a
request to Governor Morrow from
Newport and Covington.
Trouble here has been going on for
more than a week. When the steel
workers quit their employer*
strikebreakers and there hat-
constant clashes.
Homes Fired Into. As the troops wen leaving tin
In Ifvstilug the Orde. ai Frankfort train hero tne> heard a \ollet ol
last night for entrainment of the shots fired near the mill A r'i *
troops, Morrow stated be had been minute,-, later tin \ heard the rat-a-
informed that "a state of lawless tat tat ol a maehin _wn. *
port for To date onlj two HHsens liavi
been injured though mon than i
pie should be preserved.
Cases Before Him, After
the Holidays.
Debs at Work Awaiting Free
KATE" WAS SICK
All-Night Vigil.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 21.- (By U.
p.)—A movement to secure citizen- j
ship rights for Eugene V. Debs is ex-
pectert to be started by his friends
immediately following his release
from prison.
Officials said today that until the
..... • VT' . I, turer, his wife, Edith, ami .John G,
ene \ . Debs exeicise Allen. McRae's representative in Chl-
tonstltutional rights Ol nee rag0i were the known victims of the
speech, and he will continue to SPCOn,| kidnaping. A fourth man
do so in the future. He spoke not yet been found today
the truth when he branded the; Wils t[,e other victim with the Mc-
World War as a commercial ate part.
war and denounced the profi- \ Woman lnsnlt«l. ■
teers as the menace to the na- . McRae and his wife left the La- courts restore his cltlnensbip, Debs
leers ! Salle hoteI „.here they ha,| been ; cannot vote nor exercise other' civil
UOn- . . . I staying about 10 p. m. and met Allen! functions. The commutation of sen-
II. u manv of the war nrofi- md a companion a few minutes later. Unce grante.l Debs and twenty-three
♦ rn hflhhirl nrison bars While driving on the Soulh Siiie, they other "political prisoners merely
teers are behind pnson oat^ , ... mrmlnates their ters of imprison
today? How many of them > we™ 1baynd^,g'er were men. iwthout removing in any way justice this morning according
have been behind prison bars? I forced-lnto the rar A robbf,r ! lh0 civil disabilities which prison I James A. Mnch, paidon attornej
How many ot the one dol ai a (iemani|ed Mrs McR„e s rings. She 1 sentences
year paytriots enriched them-1
:elves and their interests dur-
TEURE HAUTE. Ind., Dec. 24.
— (By U. P.)—Mrs. Eugene V.
Debs put a holly wreath In the
window today and waited.
The enduring wife of "Gene,"
who was granted amnesty, mus-
tered all her strength ;o that
"Gene" won't know that I've
been ill."
"I'm sorry that Gene will not
be here for Christmas." Mrs.
Debs said.
Gene's "Kate" had no cora-
:arry. 1 A definite decision was reached at, ^ ^
. Af.pr the holidays President Hard- a conference of President Hauling
had hidden them on her person. After tne no majb «ie Attornev (ieneral Daugherty at
.n.„r « * •,
world war produce a
near the residence of Joe Carroll,
one of the victims, and masked men
raided the Carroll home.
Mourlaitd was placed on the stan i
at the pieliminary hearing, and re-
fused to answer questions about th<
j Man's officers and activity here.
| Bourland, however, denied he had
| ATliANTA, Ga.. Dec. 24.—Eugene j heard anything of plans of ^ group
V. Debs was employed at his usual jof racn to ,ar ,ul(l feu,,lor tairoll.
task today In the Atlanta federal ] was "!l(,Be<1 lo U°1" "een "
bootlegger.
prison hospital ward. , were allowed their lib-
Official orders freeing him of the t.rty on bonds.
ten year sentence imposed nearly! John Smith, one of the.defendfts.
ithree years ago for conviction under wap released on the recommendation
the wartime Espionage Act bad not Lf Creeling, who declared the testl-
yet been received by prison officials j mony was not sufficient to prove he
early today, according to Warden J. ha(j any par^ jn the Wilson raid,
ii>yche.
i Plans for a home-coming celebra-
1 tion and Christmas dinner at Terre
| Haute, Ind., were canceled last night.
Disappointed because orders free-
were not transmitted to
prison officials. Theodore Debs,
brother of the aged Socialist leader.
to greet
"Homes of citizens have been ' dozen hav «• been beat* n up
LEGION REGRETS DEBS' RELEASE
WORLD WAR VETERANS REJOICED
NEGRO BOY IN JAIL
ON LARCENY CHARGE
did the refus'e'l fo'give^up "the™eius They i Those Involving men who were tomorrow, Christmas day. . a watchful vigil here throughout the j,, w (d by w (
tnt refused to give up the gems, jn.j age will be laid aside Attorney General Dapgherly today | that
crop of look about of her money and | jmlefln|tely as ,.rRstdent Harding Is said he regretted the way statements t<m, new planB for Debs'..' ......
opposed to any leniency for them, regarding when the prisoners would
(Continued
millionaires heretofore
known in the history of the
world ?
Today the people clamor for
disarmament. They want
peace. The people were for dis-
armament always. Debs gave
voice to this sefitiment. He
understands the common peo-
desire'to kX^ach^other™ lie Meeting in Kansas City Prom- HOLIDAY FEED
esire for icoc Forward SteD in Co-
The others will be passed upoh as
rapidly as possible, it was said, and
given their freedom as fast as fav-
orable decisions are reached.
Official orders for the delease of
Debs and the other twenty-throe po-
litical prisoners from the three fed-
eral prisons left the department of
be released were made yesterday an
nouncing the commutations of sen-
tences, caused many friends of the
Dewey James, negro boy of Ar-
cadia, was in the county jail Satur-
day morning, on a charge of stealing
hiiu meuuB r.. v - some money and other articles from
him at the prison gates, maintained I yie standard Lumber company office
■ ■"— 'h" ! „ was aai„ by w [•. Lindsay, unde^-
I sheriff, that $3.50 was taken, along
with a grip ami a six-shooter The
! gun was recovered. Arrest was made
j by Spear Crossley. deputy sheriff.
•ailing for Debs'
departure from Atlanta, probably to-
morrow night, were being made.
Present plans call for his arrival in
friends of tlie T|rr(> Haute Monday night or TueB-
pnsoners to believe they would be I mornlnB
able to spend Christmas at their x,_„ ... ,
homes.
News of Debs' release was given
.. him unofficially last evening. accord-
It was because of the errors tha.
(Continued on 1'itKe 3)
l prison attache
knows that this desir
wholesale killing must be cre-
ated through a hypocritical and
lying press controlled by the
industrial and financial kaisers
and barons; and so the voicisof
Debs is ever raised for the edu-
cation, the welfare and the
solidarity of the common peo-
ple. Debs never poses as a
iaviour. "If 1 had the power
ises Forward Step in Co-
Operatiev Buying.
FOR IDLE MEN
stride toward co-ordination ir
national co-operative buying was Employment Bureau Arranges
For Citizens To Feed
Hundreds.
c
[CAST COLD
m sum
YOUNG SLAYER
OUT ON BOND
[0
BY CYME
XKN1A, Ohio. Dec. . Criti-
cism of the release of Eugene
Debs from the Atlanta federal
prison was expressed here touay
by L. Darlington, state .'oin-
mander of the American Legion. '
•'! am sorry to -«e that he is re-
1enfed.M h^ hi. 7.
"The American U- lof i - « 11
record as being opposed lo fho
pardoning of Deba ind I am per
sonallj' strongly opposed to it '
FARM PRODUCT
RAURATE CUT
Railroad rates on farm products
within the state were reduced lu per
cent by the corporation commission
Friday afternoon upon application of
the railroads. The decrease will go
into effect on the same date that th<
10 per cent decrease on int. rstat«
rates goes into effect.
r The corporation commission a ti
thoriml the reduction without the
formality of a hearing. The new
rates will be put Into effect as soon
a nen (schedules can be published it
was said.
World War veterans of Oklahoma
and Kama; wire rejoiced Saturday
at the pardon ofKugene V. Debs and
the twenty-three other political pris-
oners.
"Committees from the organ!
lion containing Tno.ntio ex-sen
men have Tteen at Work i$r monfhs
in Washington working for this pur-
|K)se." said Ernest U. Chamberlain.
,<fate .chairman of the Oklahoma
World War Veterans.
"The law under which these men
\serc imprisoned was a travesty on
tiie constitution. We hope that the
1 time may never return when men
^liall be Jailed Tor exercising their
constitutional righis."
ONLY FOURTEEN. BUT
HE GOT SOME PRESENT
SAPULPA. Okli Dec -4. Do*
lliomu Sapulpii Herald press
wniployi1. i- only .1 years old. bill lie
nrolmblv ot mir. (loin old SallU
Ploy i
.1 lis! i1
union held In Kansas City, Mo.. De-
cerober 19, according to a report
Saturday by John A. Simpson, vice |
II I I littl LMC UUHVt , oiuu'
and the vision to lead you out president of the national fanners or-
of the wildelTieSS. tH 'l,rhe fol|owinB managers of stale
'I would not do >o. Anotliei , { n jnhbinK associations
one. with greater powers Vity: u u. uevoss
persuasion than I. would be. Q K Marlcy Missouri state cm- ,
able to lead you back into the (,hanKG. Mr Habercost and R. o.
Saturday Next Coldest Day
Before Christmas Ever
Recorded Locally.
; i-'air weather and bitterly cold was
the prediction of the weather man
James Hapgood Is Released
After Habeas Corpus
Hearing.
Whole Arkansas Town Is Re-
ported Wiped Out By —
Wind Storm.
SINN FEINERS CAPTURED
LONDON. Dec. 24. (By I IM j anu
Police today raider a parochial hall tie.-
near Glasgow. They captured thir- .eiv
teen Sinn Feiners and numerous ri-1 non
ties, bombs and other munitions. to 1
NUW YORK
when tin
m theii i
* hrlstiuas
imli.unant
found bol-
24.
EARLE, Ark., Dec.
—Eight negroes and 01
.lames llapgood. 19 year old boy,' were killed in a cycion
who killed John C. Rogers in a
Fourth street restaurant, following
an alleged insult to his wife.
tically wiped out ( lark
dispatch received here
Hundreds of relief v.
surrounding towns are r
sed from county jail on $10,000 injUml all(l s,
made at the meeting of the state ex
change officers of the National Far-
mers' Educational and Co-operative j
in u'ci 11 cub ntv. Mo.. De- i . , , . .v.
About 300 of the unemployed of the
city will be treated to Christmas
dinners by different citizens and or-
ganizations, according to O. L. Hud-
son, superintendent of the federal- , —
state employment bureau. Numbers Saturday for < hristmas day. •
of invitations have been received for not expected to be as cold as . at-
unemployed men, or ex-soldiers to urday mornint;. however
come out for a "feed " With one exception, Saturday was
_. ■ .• j change; mi. • — A hundred men had accepted thes. 'he coldest day before 11 | trlct court Friday after a prellmln'
wilderness. The salvation ot j.osteri Nebraska state exchange. ; offerg gaturday morning and about ever recorded by the i ary hearing in the jiistice court o
the people lies with the people. (.corRe D. Baker and Mr. ( arroll. invitations remained bureau, according to J. 1 . SlaughC ( ^ ^ white Bon,, for hiB release
They can ««ly save them-,Iwa ,tate exchange; H. B. Con-, * It wap ^pec.ed that by meteorologist in charge At 7 o clock
i verse, Oklahoma state exchange ' ( hristmas evening. 3"" invitations Saturday ^ t^perature was 1
- . Walter Wadsworth of the Missouri !.ould be recelved and fUled degrees a fa of al
llis entire life has been given rarm association. Rev. T. G. c. McCalla, dean of St PreeB
„ National Purchasing Combine. Y'aul'a cathedral, has asked that KM
The meeting proposed national , be gent oul for a dinner. Oth
(By U. P.)
white man
which prac-
Ark . a
| bond set by Judge T. W. • hampion
\rdmore, who heard the application
for a rit of habeas corpus.
Hapgood was bound over to di
earcbi
da I
od>
orkers fron
iring for thi
he ruins foi
n of
ed through
i rittenden cr
selves."
lo awaken the people to action
for themselves, to arouse in
101 tnclliacivca. ^ mcu uo bcui wm .... ..
them the suirit that thev want co-operation In buying and seiling | |ndlvldual> an() ,.iut,s have asked for
to shake off not only the War S and .arrangement were cornp^ ed
m WKti ua ins. miv >"v — - pre comple"7\ large numbers
Kaisers but the industrial and! (or the purchase of several commo - Snmt, Pxtril „ ork will 1
' . . ., , , j i n-itinnn KCil
the coldest day before
was recorded, only 4 d
the zero mark.
The "white Christnu
Christmas
above
so much
was furnished by W. E. England,
real estate dealer, and W. R. Ramsey,
banker.
Several defense witnesses gave
testimony at the habeai^corpus hear-
ing Lee Horn, who was In the res-
taurant at the time, declared
ThTtf Debs'^great^offense. "a" of -
That is why he is maligned.,
That is why he is depicted as
a dangerous character.
Debs is getting old. Yet the
remaining years of his life lie
i formed, which
Will meet every three months. II
II converse of Oklahoma City was
made president and George r>. llakcr.
DesMolnes. Iowa, gecretary.
„ . .An intensive membersbii
will spend in again arousing beins inaugurated to prov
B provided
by the Christmas festivities, Hudson
declared. This consists mostly of
domestic labor. No calls have been
made for men to act as Santa Claus.
Hudson said, though some of the men
are willing to serve.
the people to stand up, t<
straighten up, to throw otY
their backs the exploiters <>f
mankind and take their right-
drive if
the fal
lacy of the criticism that farmer?
will not stick together, according tc
H. B. Converse, the new presi<i nt.
FOUNDLINGS DIE AFTER
REMOVAL FROM "HOME"
KANSAS CITY. Mo., Dec. 24.—(Hy
C. P.)—Another baby taken from the
Harry M. Evans (children's home, a
be I foundling institution, died today.
total of infant deaths
JiiaiiKiiiu anu tone men .. r\ph<;
fill place in a free society where lite tor " in(,Veas- I.ringing th
the robbery of one human be- gladdene >> a women following the removal of babies from
ins by another will have ins host of mer anti^ ™,ns, tbc plac
teased, where all will have the that will light fo; the ideal.
opportunity of free and useful and princips - ot •
labor, and where poverty and Plenty tor all ™"kmd, and
the fear of poverty will he un- thus realize on th^eaithaml
known. i n our time the saj mg ol Jesus,
* * "Peace on Earth, Good V\illjtjiej
J^ay the remaining years oi l Toward All|Men.
... to thrt
Ten children found in the Evanf
home were all suffering from mal-
nutrition, it was declared today.
The home will not be permitted to
re infants until it is certain of stock t
receive proper care, it w
"""" ' 'n material- Rogers addressed insulting remarks
riPHivcd Vtv mans will noi maiermi
fze. the forecasters declare. It Is <o him and Mrs. Kdge, a companion,
likely to He fair and much colder < <! ™r the alleged Insult
than if there were snow, ihey lire- made to Hapgood s iff.
diet A rising temperature was ,.n- "">• but said that he noticed Roger-
dieted late Christmas day, while lit looking at the table ai which .lap-
tie relief was expetce^ Saturday. good sal. Rogers was drunk, Horn
CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION
BY CO-OPERATIVE STORE
BARTLESVILLE. Dec. 25. In
celebration of their first year of sue
- essful operation the stockholders of
the Peoples' Co-operative Store here
Held a Christmas jubilee Friday.
A ( hristmas tree was set up and
an entertaininK program demon-
strated the social possibilities of real
i co-operative spirit.
The Bartlesville store is growing
and will soon add several new lines
)resent business. It
Bartlesville farmers
?aid.
Joe English testified that he ac-
companied Hapgood and his wife into
the restaurant, and that he heard
Rogers make insulting remarks in
the presence of Mrs. Hapgood, and
that Rogers assumed a threatening
; attitude when Hapgood objected.
'GENE DEBS
mmi,mm minimum
As usual the Leader was one or the ver.\ few dailies in
Oklahoma vesterda\ that carried a stoiv «.l th.- paidon ot
Kusrene V„*Debs and t enty-three othei political prisoner^.
The Leader j{ives all the important news, and especially
that of interest to the working class of city and farm. \\ hen
we receive a hint similar to the one that Debs was to be re-
leased, we s<> to extra expense to that news lor our readers.
Nothing has happened for a long time thai ha- placed
more joy in the hearts of the working clas> than th. pardon
ol Debs. We even received telegrams, asking us to send the
news out by wire when it was received, the people were so
anxious to know.
Of course we are all going to celebrate the pardon ot Deos
in our own little way. We wonder what method of celebration
lie would suggest ii' he were here. Don't you think that lie
would advise that you devote a day or two to the cause of the
workers by increasing the circulation of the Oklahor i Leader,
their paper? We believe he «nu!d.
The Leader's Special Holidaj Oiler ha> ■ ven more days
to run. Spend one or two of tho-e day- to round up more
leaders for your paper. Use the following coupon:
CANDLES TO LIGHT :_1~~THI^ ~U~\ umi:u> on -O |
. _ ^ / \ ..i i i ;.. i !•> li.kiit-i 1 itv\ —•
bo<lle
The cycion*'
northesist secti
ty.
The path of the storm Is believed
, to have been only eight miles lon«
and not more than fifty yards wid<
It traveled south with velocity
of seventy-five miles an hour, at
cording to reports here Approxi-
mately ten inches of rain fell in
three hours.
Word receiver
that practically
Clarksdale was
damaged. One i
falling building.
Two women were reported seri
ly injured at Crawfordsville, Ten
state
i killed hy
YULE FESTIVITIES?
out fo
•declared.
arkingmen last February.
HOLIDAY FOR LEADER
The Leader will not be printed
Monday, in accordance with the
policy of giving the employes the
benefit of holidays. This will be
in observance of Christmas which
falls on Sunday this year.
the
Better buy
Lights wer
minutes Frld:
city. Official
&. Klectri< company blam
unusual number of v
its in city homes. Th<
| light service necessary
overload, they declare.
Christmas festivities v
their height late Saturdi
iind there Is a possibility
overload. Keep a supply
, until Oklahoma City gets
i light plant. |
r about flftt
in parts of
Oklahoma (
of candles
municipal
(Not i. iod in Oklahoma City)
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