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HISTORICAL SOCIBT*
The Daily Transcript
VOLUME vi.
Carrying the Full United Press Telegraphic Report.
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6. 1918.
NUMBER 5.
files in the office of Henry V'eeder, |
LENINE WOULD GIVE
RUSSIA TO GERMANY
\ By ROBERT J. BENDER,
(United Press Stall Correspondent)
(Copyright 1918 By The U. P. A.)
Washington, D. C., March 6.—That
Nicholai Lenine, Bolsheviki prime
minister, is deliberately attempting to
deliver revolutionary Russia into the
hands of the Germans is the substance
of highly important communications
received in Washington today from an
unquestionable bat confidential source.
The communication shows also that
Lenine is simultaneously trying to
arouse the Russians against the "mil-
itarism of the allies."
This latest development in the ever-
changing Russian turmoil is particu-
^ '.rly significant in view of the Japa-
' nese threat in Siberia. The communi-
cation received today, is, in part, as
follows:
Lenine takes the stand that there
must be no agitation against German
militarism, but that agitation should
continue against the militarism of the
nations at war wih Germany.
He is using every influence to have
the new peace treaty terms (between
Germany and the Bolsheviki spokes-
men) obeyed in all particulars of non-
interference with Germany."
In Lenine the government now sees
the man behind the treachery to rev-
olutionary Russia. Jn Trotsky, the for-
eign minister, officials here still be-
lieve, is the spirit trying to keep the
revolution alive and honored.
The statement of Lenine's policy
toward the invading Germans leaves
no doubt here that he is playing "hand ! DCniU|fjWn PRE AT
in glove" with the Teutons. It explains llbUlTlUliU| UflLn I
many things that in recent months
iiave perplexed the allied diplomats.
There is now presented a Bolshe-
viki government divided in purposes
within itself. And the official view
here is that under these circumstances,
backed by the belief that a majority
jf the Russian people will not submit
to German militarism, Lenine's posi-
tion will soon be difficult.
the -.ame time Lenine's insis-
* nee iu continue against the ullli-
tarism of the allies renders even more
delicate the question of Japanees in-
terference in Siberia and faces the al-
lies with one of the most serious dip-
lomatic problems of the war.
The pitiful failure of allied diplo-
macy in the past—including American
—is now cheerfully blamed officially
here for the present Russan chaos. In
the treachery of Lenine and the well
known German diplomacy now, the
allies are faced again with a real test
in Russia. President Wilson's attitude
toward the Japanese expedition has
been shown in his refusal to approve
the military movement.
With Lenine's course now exposed,
it is clear that a military expedition
into Siberia, fostered by Japan and
approved by America and the allies.
would be a sword in the hand of the
Bolsheviki leader, officials say.
Franeis Heney Still PACKERS THRIVE
After ackers ^ EXPENSE
Women Hack Up
President Wilson
By Vnited Press. •
Chicago, March 6.—'Arguments |
were scheduled to begin in the federal By I nited I'ress , ,
court of appeals here today on the j Chicago, March b.—The fate of de- , newIy enfranchised women voted ir
big packers move to prevent the fed-' mands for "greased wages and an j Tuesday's congressional election, re
eral trade commission from probing e,«ht hour ,hiy' "Acting the welfare turng today showed.
SELF DEFENSE
PLEA OF HGLDEN
BULLETIN
%
By United Press:
New York, March 6.—More than
j ninety per cent of. New York City's Jury Secured at 10 o'clock J'liis Morn- j
ing and Testimony Being Offered— !
of 100,000 employes in the country's
attorney for Swift and company, for Peking industry, rfested with Arbitra-
evidence of alleged felonies. ',or Samuel Alschuler today. Clos.ng
Holden's Attorneys Making Earnest
Kight for Their Client—Pruitt Out-
Veeder seeks return of a suitcase
of letters and documents in the Unit-
ed States marshal's custody, obtain-
ed by Francis J. Heney, commission
counsel before his search warrant
from Judge Landis was stayed by the
higher court.
If, contrary to Heney's expectations,
the three appeal judges let down the
bars to a thorough search of Veeder's
papers. Henry promises new sensa-
tions over shadowing anything the
commission's food probe has so far un-
covered.
Started nearly a month ago, the
packers fight to block Heney, which
they plan to carry to the supreme
court if necessary, was said to indi-
cate their view of the papers' im-
portance.
Broad powers assumed by the com-
mission under the search and seizure
clause of the espionage act are under
attack by the packers on constitution-
al grounds. ThV future scope and speed
of the commissions food probe hang
in the balance. An adverse decision
by the court will result in renewal of
his plea to congress for more specific
authority, Heney indicated today.
IRISH LEADER, DEAD
By United Press.
London, March 6.—John Redmond,
famous Irish leader, died early today
of heart disease, following an intes
final operation.
Redmond became critically ill sev-
eral days ago. At that time it was
announced that he was suffering from
malignant cancer.
lie had been the Irish nationalist
leader in the house of commons since
shortly after his election to parliment
in the 80's. He was the principal fac-
tor in the home rule movement.
Redmond was a forceful orator of
the Rooseveltian type. It was his pro-
gram to antagonize every British
government, hoping to force Irish
home rule through methods approxi-
mating "insurgency."
When the war government failed to
pass the home rule. Redmond was
popularly believed to have suffered a
broken heart. Yet he refused to join
the Sinn Fein movement and was in-
tensely patriotic, almost imperialistic,
in his loyalty to the war government.
As a result, his popularity in Ire-
land waned and recently there has
been a movement in his home district
to succeed him in parliment.
Redmond did not want absolute in-
tor Samuel Alschuler today
arguments were to be completed by
tonight, following a month of public
hearings in which packers profits of
$100,000,000 annually wer# contrasted
with degradation back of the stock
aids or the employes were charged
with lack of thrift and proneness to
large families, according to claims of
opposing counsel.
Carl Meyer and J. G. Condon, at-
torneys for the employers, replied to-
day to the closing argument Frank
P. Walsh delivered for the workers
late yesterday. His bitter charges that
the employers are "economic slaves
denied 'the budget organized charity
grants beggars" were answered by
the packers counsel with a defense of
the wages paid as compared with oth-
er industries.
Walsh's argument was the most
scathing arraignment of the packing
industry ever heard here. The pack-
ers organized charity and welfare
work among their workers he de-
nounced as "a substitute for the just
wage the packers owe their eihployes."
Employment of women in the killing
beds where they also handle the offal
of hogs and singe the skins of the
still warm carcass was made the basis
of a plea by Walsh to arbitrator Al-
schuler to "forbid such work by wom-
en for the profit of any other human
being."
Walsh disclosed new chapters in the
story of what occurred in Washington
prior to the packers agreement to ar-
bitrate, declaring they were threaten-
ed \ ith government ownership. But
what finally broke down their opposi-
tion, according to Walsh, was the ac-
tion of President John Fitzpatrick of
the Chicago Federation of Labor
walking up to J. Ogden Armour in
the secretary of labor's office and say-
ing: "Let us be men, Mr. Armour. My
name is Fitzpatrick. I know you." And
they shook hands.
Walsh quoted Roger Babson, fi-
nancial and industrial expert, who was
said to have reported to the labor de-
partment that "there is no shortage
of labor, but a disinclination to work
for small pay offered by autocratic
managers of industries who pay 100
percent increase on materials, but re-
fuse to pay advanced wages."
a iled Press.
London. March fi.—The armed
mercantile cruiser Calagarian was
torpedoed and sunk Friday, the
British admiralty officially an-
nounced today. Two officers and
fifty-six men were lost.
The Calagarian was a steel steamer
lines Defense, Which Is Self Defense 0f 17,515 tons built at Glasgow in
and Unlawful Attack by an Officer. 1015. She was owned by the Allan
— : Steamship line and was managed by
The jury that will decide the fate o, ^anu(|jull Pacific ocean service,
Chas. Holden, on trial for the murdei ]imite<l. She was registered at Glas-
jof Grover Fulkerson on August 24,1 KoW
cause of the unprecedented vote east was secured at 0c'oc'< this, Belfast, Ireland, March 6.—Surviv-
by the women in proportion to the j (^Vednesday) morning, aftei the de- ors ()j- submarined steamer Cala-
number registered, the federal amend- fense 1,1U' exhausted every one of its |Karjan declared today that forty-five
ment would be speedily passed by n'ne peremptory challenges. I lie state i minutes elapsed between the firing of
peremptory challenged only one juroi, i I|)e fjrst an,| second torpedoes that
waiving all its other challenges.
Only thirty-three per cent of the
men east their ballots. The democratic
candidates made a clean sweep, win-
ning in each of the four congressional
districts.
Suffrage leaders predicted that be-
speedily passed by
congress.
The new meirtbers of congress are:
Jerome F. Donovan, Anthony J. Grif-
fin, William E. Cleary and John J.
Delaney.
Figures showed that out of 13t),8fi(i
men voters registered only 46,234 or
33.7 per cent cast their ballots. Of
the 35,205 women registered 31,758
voted.
The democratic victory gives that
party a lead of three in the house and
wipes out the republican plurality of
one.
Local democratic leaders asserted j
that the result showed conclusively j
that the people are standing back of
The following are the jurors:
R. F. Gill, farmer, Norman.
W. C. Wilson, farmer, Moore.
Thos. Lewis, farmer, Lexington.
Chas. Herzog, farmer, Lexington.
Ed Ross, farmer, Lexington.
George Carpenter, farmer, Lexing-
ton.
L. J. Feurbourn, farmer, Lexington.
W. L. Waddle, farmer, Lexington.
C. A. Moody, bookkeeper, Norman.
Elbert May, farmer, Lexington.
J. M. Weeks, farmer, Norman, R. 6.
A. M. Wagoner, farmer, Noble.
Immediately after jury was em-
President Wilson and his war policies. PaneIed- Cuui,ti' Attorney Cheatwood
They predicted that the November
ad the information, which charged
NiD Neighborhood Rows dependence for Ireland. He desired a
° I government for that country similar
to that of the Dominion of Canada.
Redmond was born in 1851, the son
Chickens are fine things to have
around the place in these times when
th high cost of living presents a se-
rious problem. Uncle Sam is encour-
aging everybody to raise 'em. Also,
a garden is a fine thing and it is your
patriotic duty to plant one. But every-
body knows that chickens and gardens
can't be successfully grown on the
of W. A. Redmond, member of parli-
ment from Ballytrent. He was first
elected to parliment from New Ross
in 1881. In 1885 he was elected from
New Wexford and in 1891 from
Waterford. He had visited America
several times, generally for the pur-
elections would show sweeping demo-lCllas- Holden and Jol,n Juy with fe"
cratic victories loniously killing Grover Fulkerson on
The showing of the republicans fell1 August 24, 1917, at a point some two
far below their expectations. !mlles wuthwest of Norman, and At-
Many of the polling places could be : torne-v Ben Williams outlined what
located at a distance by the squadrons the state exPected <•'> Pr°ve. vl?-: That
of baby carriages drawn up on either1 Grover Fulkerson, m the discharge of
side of the walk. t duty as deputy sheriff, had stop-
Several boards had provided candy i Pe(l these two n,e" with intention uf
or flowers as souvenirs for the first! seal"c^l'n>? their car, a Ford roadster,
women voters for liquor; that he told them he was
i an officer, and of his desire to search
I their machine; that they resisted the
j search, and, when he attempted to
j force them to submit, double-teamed
jon him, and shot him through the
stomach with his (Fulkerson's) own
j gun; that the men then placed Fulker-
j son's body in their car to bring him
j to Norman, and on the way talked be-
tween themselves as to what they
would say, viz: That Fulkerson had
shot himself accidentally. This con-
versation, Mr. Williams stated, was
j heard by Mr. Fulkerson when they
were bringing him to town and was
told in his dying statement.
Attorney Mooman Pruitt outlined
Holden's defense, viz: That Holden
and Jay had left Oklahoma City that
morning, crossing the river at.Mus-
Mason's Daily Review
By J. W. T. MASON,
(Written for the United Press.)
New York, N. Y., March 6.—The
allies diplomatic offensive against
Germai ,, .an be continued with re-
newed possibilities of success, follow-
ing the decision of the American gov-
ernment not to endorse Japan's pro-
posed adventerous expedition into Si-
beria.
The fact that the policy of a diplo-
matic offensive for spreading demo-
cratic ideals originated with Presi-
dent Wilson gives greatest signifi-
cance to America's responsibility for
causing a reconsideration of possible
Our Boys in France
By FRED S. FERGUSON,
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
With the American Army
France, March 4.-—The effectiveness)
imperialistic complications in the al-, tankr an() eoming south throut,h li-
lies war for democracy. The attitude clain county n.dt they crossed the
of President Wilson toward the deli- bri(ke west of Norman the afternoon
cate situation in the Far East will ! of Auf,ust 24th with intention of com-
greatly strengthen him as a spokes- ; ing t0 Norman to get a relative out of
man of disinterested democracy. , the asylum; that they were going
It is vitally important for the allies j along the public highway, peaceable
cause that an impression of Ameri-1 citizenSi attending to their own busi-
ca's disinterestedness in world
ti
same ground. As is well known, chick- pose of raising funds to push the
home rule movement. His son, William
Archer Redmond, was elected to parli-
ment from East Tyronne in 1911.
Redmond's brother, Major William
H. K. Redmond, member of parliment
from Clare, was killed in action on the
west front recently.
Rickard Goes to
vens have a well developed propensity
committing depredations on gar-
Jens, very much to the annoyance of
the gardner.
Now to forstall hostilities in oth-
erwise peaceful neighborhoods and to
prevent fowls from destroying gar-
dens, the city has an ordinance un-
der the terms of which it is a misde-
meanor to permit chickens to run at
large. The enforcement of this ordi-
nance devolves upon the police officers
but we ought not to wait till we are
pinched before we take cognizance of
it. You know hens have a habit of
making a break for the neighbor's
gardens the minute the seeas are de-
posited in the soil. Dort't wait for this
calamity and "casus belli" to happen
—pen the fowls right now and thus
j.ip any incipient trouble in the bud.
WEATHER.
of the American artillery was thrilling | La 5 >" ™ de- negg> whe„ at the point of the (lif.
and impressively demonstrated early | raocracy be J®1? amonK ,t.he.,C'e,r" I ticulty they were held up by a man
mans. 1 his would be impossible if the vvh0 jumped on the running board of
United States were to consent to Ja- j their machine and ordered them to
pan s interference with Russia s still i f)a]t. That they asked his authority,
existing soverign rights in Siberia.; am| jn answer he pushed a gun in
An attitude of disapproval by Amer-j their faces and said: "This is my au-
ica on the other hand must be morally i thority." That Fulkerson had reached
effective in Germany. President W il-1 over am| turned off the switch of their
son, in fact, has won a new victory j machine, and when Holden reached
for the allies in his diplomatic offen- ,)own in an attempt to turn it on again
slve- | Fulkerson struck him over the head,
Uneasiness in Germany concerning cutting a deep gash and dazing him.
the attitude of the Russian people | Immediately, the men grappled with
toward the Brest-Litovsk peace agree-) Fulkerson, and in the fight that ensued
ment shows that Von Hindenburg's | Fulkerson's gun went off and shot
method of diplomacy is not carrying ! |lml- That they then placed him on
conviction at home. The German be- j the back of the car and brought him
lief that Lenine and Trotsky may be , t0 Norman, saying to Mrs. Albert
compelled to resign is undoubtedly j Short that they "had to get him to a
due to reports that have reached high j doctor or he would die," and that they
German quarters concerning the dis- j did not know he was an officer until
satisfaction of the Russians with a j he told them so as they were ap-
(■erman peace. I proaching the town. Mr. Pruitt alsojkerson replied, according to Judgi
.,„o ^ 's 'mP0SS'')'e believe under j intimated that evidence might be in-1 Burke, that he was shot on purpose.
wave-like flashes of lightening which ' t'lese c'rcumstances that there can be j troduced to indicate that Mr. Fulker- | H. L. Sadler, who arrested Holden
Cftufl, Amprira the big guns pierced with bursts of t*ny change in th? disposition of the Ison had been drinkinK- but was not i and Jay, said that he found Fulker-
k flame | German troops along the Russian j very definite on that phase of thejson's gun in the bottom of the car,
r, t |j i i j i , I front. Von Hindenburg cannot afford ! inattpr ; rid that there was no broken irlass
Bv United Press: Rockets could be observed shooting , , * matter. anu mat mere no uiukiii Ma**
Buenos \ires March 6 Tex Rick-' up from the enemy trenches as the I t0 ta 0 1 iarRes- - s as ^ e ,t,"| Mr. S. C. Cavett of Newcastle was J:1'oun(' L. Sanderson, city
mans are suspicious of the effective-!^ first witnegs> an(, testified that he marshal, testified that when he ex-
ness of the work of their own peace , jn a (,ar that passe(, {he HoIden. amined the car the same afternoon
diplomats, there will be little further ; ,ay car whj,e Fu,kerson an(, the tw0 ,after the shooting, the windshield was
movement from the east to the west , i broken
men were having the difficulty, and , 1 wl1.
Sheriff
today in the biggest cannonading ac-!
tion to date on this sector.
The Boche guns were smothered by |
the American fire. Starting at 1 a. m. !
all the American guns placed on this j
sector opened with a terrific blast, j
Upwards of three thousand shells were |
hurled into the German defenses.
During the height of the bombard- |
ment enemy batteries located in a [
wood were peppered with gas shells I
and high explosives while 75's poured j
a rain of metal over the trenches and j
support lines. It was fifteen minutes
after the opening salvo before the
Germans made a single reply. It was
36 minutes before the Germans located
some American batteries.
The roll and rumble and thunder of
the American guns was continuous.
From empty blackness, the night sky
suddenly was illumined with the
brightest red; then was shot with
j struck her.
' The first torpedo did little damage,
I they said, but the second penetrated
•the enginerooni, killing most of the
new in that part of the ship. Many
\ lifeboats were blown to atoms.
, Rescue ships worked magnificently
'the survivors said.
| to Fulkerson) shot this man (Holden)
land then this man (Holden) shot this
man (Fulkerson)," and then Jay said
| "we must get him to a doctor or he'll
| die." Holden was bloody, and his
I clothes saturated.
Boss Lindsay, undertaker, identified
the clothing he took from Mr. Fulker-
,on's body, the undershirt, over shirt
and trousers being grewsome exhibits,
covered as they were with dried blood.
Testimony given by Mr. Lindsay was
strong for the prosecution, as it was
to the effect that Fulkerson in his
dying statement said that he was kil-
led with his own gun by Chas. Holden
and John Jay. Mr. Lindsay said Ful-
kerson in his statement declared he
stopped the car driven by the Oklaho-
ma City men, said he was the under-
sheriff and that he intended to search
the car. llolden and Jay replied that
he would not search their car and Ful-
kerson then declared he had searched
every car which had crossed the bridge
in the last two days, including that of
Governor Williams, and that he had
as much right to search their car as
he did that of the governor.
Fulkerson said the men then started
the car, he stepped on the running
board, one of the men hit at the offi-
cer. Fulkerson hit that man over the
head with his (Fulkerson's) gun. The
gun then fell to the floor of the car
where it was grabbed by the men, and
as they grabbed it they fired. Fulker-
son said he held the gun away from
his body when the first shot was fired,
but that both men then grabbed him,
poked the gun into his stomach and
fired again. Severe cross-examination
by Mr. Pruitt failed to shake his testi-
mony.
At the afternoon session, James
Stogner, court clerk, declared Ful-
kerson in his dying statement said he
heard Holden and Jay talking while
they were bringing him to Norman.
Fulkerson said the two thought he
was unconscious.
He declared they said they would
bring him to Norman, report the
whole thing as an accident and say
that Fulkerson shot himself with his
own gun. They said, according to
Stogner's account of Fulkerson's
statement, that Fulkerson "would be
unable to tell anything on us."
Stogner also said that just after
Fulkerson was taken out of the car,
Hnlden told him that Fulkerson had
accidentally 3hot himself.
County Judge George C. Burke
testified that he talked with Fulker-
son while he was lying in Dr. Bobo's
office. The Judge testified that he
asked Fulkerson whether the shooting
was an accident or whether the other
fellow had shot him on purpose. Ful-
Norman and Vicinity: Gen-
erally fair weather tonight and
Thursday. Continued cold to-
night with minimum tempera-
ture 26 to 32 degree. Warm-
er Thursday.
ard, American fight promoter, has ar- j Germans frenziedly signalled their ar-
rived here on his way to Paraguay, j ' tilery.
where he plans to establish an exten- The pounding of the American guns
sive cattle and packing house busi-1 'lied down during a heavy snowfall.
ness ! When this let up slightly the artillery
Richards, famous as promoter of started again and the bombardment
some of the biggest fights ever held continued throughout the day.
in the United States, left New York j
last month for South America, osten-
sibly to buy a ranch and live on it
| for several years. He made no men- j
| tion of entering the packing Business
| at that time.
j Rickard, in a statement to the t
United Press at that time said he did
not believe there was a chance to
'bring Fred Fulton and Jess Willard
I together in a championship bout. That
[was before Fulton and Jack Dempsey
| had created so much interest, how-
ever.
front.
his
BULLETIN
By United Press:
London, March 6.—The British
steamer Kenmare has been sub-
marined, the admiralty announced
today. Six persons were saved.
The Kenmare was a steel screw
steamship of 1,.?30 tons built in
1895 at New Castle. She was reg-
istered at Cork by the City of
Cork Steam Packet company,
limited.
Sears Roebuck in Had
-Sears, Roe-
i Fulkerson was standing with
hands on the machine and his jrun
1 was in the hostler. After Cavett and
! his two companions £ot over the hill
they heard two shots. This testimony
i was intended to show that Mr. Fulker-
buck & company is made defendant in | so" was arguing with the men, and witness
a complaint filed today by the federal I had not drawn his gun to coerce them. ' statements
trade commission, which charges the | Mrs. A. W. Short, who lives near
concern with unfair business methods, where the difficulty occurred, testified
Sears, Roebuck and company with i she heard two shots, and, as she look-
headquarters at Chicago is one of the j ed down the road, saw a man ^o round
By United Press:
Washington, March 6.
Ben Wheelis corroborated
former witnesses as to broken wind-
shield on the car, and as to Mr. Ful-
kerson's statements.
The state rested at 4 o'clock, County
Attorney Cheatwood beintf the last
md entering into the dyin^
of Mr. Fulkerson more
fully than any former witness, but
fully corroborating them as to what
Mr. Fulkerson had said. The defense
will bejrin its testimony about 4:30.
order
the
biggest mail
country.
The government claims the adver- j
tisements of the firm are "false and \
misleading."
the automobile and pick up another
man from the ground and two men
place the body in the ear. They came
—Your films developed Free. T:\ke
vour kodak work to The Brodie Studio.
to the Short residence, where Jay told Prints 2 to 3 cents each. Studio over
Mrs. Short that "this man (pointing Reed Drug Store.
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