Nowata Daily Star (Nowata, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 87, Ed. 1 Friday, December 29, 1922 Page: 1 of 6
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WEATHER
Tonight cloudy
and wuMr; prob-
ably rain. Saturday
generally fair and
cooler.
*“• HUt”rlC» Bon^->
FRIDAY EVENING
£fcmiata DafUj #tar
Telegraph News Service of Associated Press and United Press—‘Today’s News Today/*
BOOST!
For Nowata and
help with those
things which will
make the city big-
ger and better.
VOL. XII.—NO..87.
NOWATA, OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1922
CIRCULATION TODAY, 1800 COPIES
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THINK WAR IS
INEVITABLE
Venizelos Urges That
Entire Army Go
to Thrace
fUtLEY SBPENDED
it m'
Peace or War
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Apparently Reata
in Near Eaat
Turk
Dociaioa Now Being
• By United Preea. .
Europe today atanda at the cross
roads—one path leada to war in the
Near Eaat. the other to peace.
The Imuaanne Conference atanda
suspended while Iamet Pasha, chief of
the Turkish delegation, prepares a
reply to the allied demand that tha
Turks permit international courts at
which foreignea might be tried.
Latest reports from Athene indi-
cated that Greece believes war with
Turkey is inevitable.
HUNTER CLAIMS
SPEED RECORD
Houston, Texas, Dec. 29.—
When a half grown doer turns
into a full-grown roaring Hon. its
time to s«to hunting and run a
bit, so saHk Edwin R. Warnken,
assistant flRoral district attorney
here on hi# return from Brown-
rille recently.
Warnken found time from hia
luty while at Brownsville to take
i day off and enjoy a deer hunt.
Accompanied by an Indian
tuide, he went to a famous hunt-
ing ground almost 600 miles from
Brownsville, and almost immedi-
ately jumped a young buck.
A low cry from . a clump of
mesquite bushes led them on.
3talking th- Jeer was great sport
but just as he was about to end
the career of Mr. Buck Deer, both
hunter and guide were terrified
by the roar of a lion.
Things happened fast, strictly
speaking, Warnken admitted. Not
every action is recalled but he
says the much believed tale that
Indians are fast, runners is all the
bunk. “That guide I had didn’t
know the first principles”, the
prosecutor declared.
"Oh yea the lion escaped.”
Police Officer Claims Majors
Guilty of Many Robberies
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OKLAHOMA NOW HAS
6,000 UNEMPLOYED
By United Press.
London. Dec. 29.—Resumption of
war between ’Greece ia considered
inevitable, in the former country,
according to a cable from Athens.
By United Press.
Oklahoma City, Dec. 29.—Survey
of the six principal state cities
shows that approximately 6,000 per-
sons are without employment in Ok-
lahoma, according to Claude E. Con-
nelly, state commissioner of labor.
Thy larger percent of persons out
of work are unskilled laborers. This
I total is somewhat better than this
Following tha capture of J. C.
Majors, alleged Oklahoma outlaw, at
El Dorado. Kansas, the Bartlesville
chief of police, in an interview in the
Bartlesville Enterprise, told the story
of events leading up to the capture,
which was carried by that paper to-
day. The Enterprise says:
The events leading up to Majors’
capture as told by Chief Gaston ars
as follows: “The morning after the
robbery of the jewelry store at Inde-
pendence the sheriff of that place,
several deputies and one of the pro-
prietors of the looted store, visited me
at my home and questioned me in re-
gard to the identity of the bandits.
They described the bandits and from
their descriptions I suspected that
one of the men was Majors. We
went to the police station where I
showed them a picture of Majors and
Mr. Truby identified it as one of the
bandits who had taken part in the
robbery of his jewelry store. A
search was then instituted for Majors
but the officers were unable to find
anv trace of him.
“A member of the Pinkerton De-
tective agency, who looks after
jewelry store interests in the event
of xpbbery, visited me several days
later and informed me that he Was
assigned on the case of the Truby
Jewelry store robbery. He consulted
with me in regard to Majors’ habits
and I promised to give him all the
assistance I could. Last Tuesday j
Christmas holidays with 9is wife in
ElDorado- I immediately got in
touch with the Pinkerton man and
told him to take the first train for
ElDorado, Kans. I told him to get
assistance at that place, surround
Major’s house and they would un-
doubtedly capture him.”
This is twice that Chief of Police
Gaston has been responsible for the
capture of Majors only to have other
authorities let him get away from
them. Majors is said to be one of
the smoothest crooks in the country
and is a dangerous man. He is want-
ed on charges of bank robbery, car
theft., jail breaking and is one of
the most noted crooks of the coun-
try. Great cre'dit is due Chief of
Police Gaston who is. resspnsible for
Majors* capture.
Chief Gaston was responsible for
Majors’ arrest in this city several
months ago. F Mowing his Arrest
Majors was positively identified as
one of the bandits who staged the
robbery of the Centralia, Oklahoma, i
bank and escaped with about $2,000 i
He was turned over to the Craig
countv authorities and lodged in jail \
nt Vinita. On the following night,
he. along with several other prisoners, [
broke jail and has since been at
liberty. According to the authorities
Majors was the leader in the jai\
break. Since then he has been sus-
pected of being implicated jn several
bank robberies staved in this vicinity
CHILDREN’S BEDTIME STORY
Houston, Tex., Dec. 28.—A
dcull reposes on the desk of
ieputy sheriff and clerk G. V.
Glover here.
For many weeks it was thought
o be the skull of Wash Wlard
former inmate of the County
Gome here and a mysterious mnr-
ler was thought to have been
toived—but it isn’t.
A rush call came into the sher-
ff’s office that a human skeleton
lad been found in the wood? near
lere.
Investigation led officer* to
oelieve the skeleton to be that
>f Ward who was thought to
have wandered from the Home
ind become suddenly ill and died
oefore he could regain sufficient
■‘trer.gth to summon aid. Ward
nad been missing from the Home
for some time and a description
jf the skeieton was declared by
iuthorities to tally with that of
Ward.
Now, the register at the courty
iail bears the name of Wash
Ward and the mystery of the hu-
man skeleton remains unsolved.
The skull still reposed on the
corner of Glover’s desk, some-
:imes with a cigar between its
.eeth or a hat pushed sufficiently
:'ar back on the dome to expose
;he pink paper stuffed in the eye
sockets.
Former Premier Venixelos, vision- itime last year when 10,000 were re-
ing a breakdown of the Lausanne con-'ported unemployed.
ferenc. has anted sending the entire | Railroad officials in the state re-
Greek army to Thrace, leaving only ported rail-labor conditions are nor-
one Battalion at Athens. |i»al. although ninety percent of
_ ; union workers are out on strike.
London. Doc. 29.—Great Britain The places left by strikers have all
rushed a fleet to Constantinople "to .been filled, it waa said,
influence th* Turks toward peace."! The southeast portion of the
The admirelity announced that Ad- -tutc i« more relieved than in the
■h«i Brack's aonadrow — ------rest. Some of this unemployment
ing fVgUi "Hjlty *h naval b duo to the weather, making build-
baae In the Mafiterranean. full speed tag Impoodhle.
for Constantinople. i__ConditioMa in the state are not ex-
Thle action was taken at a time *»• ,ttrth<‘r Improved until
when the Turks at th« Lausanne, April 10*3. ^
conference wore defying the British | ' 1 — (gp
and dsmanding that the rich Mosul mtiiA same* gysf f rn
oil basin bo surrendered. I TWO MEN Kll.l.r.11
In announcing the fleet had been
dispatched, the admirality stated it
was being sent as a precautionary
measure, "a sort of moral influence”
Lausanne. Dec. 29.—Turkey chose
IN PISTOL DUEL
San Antonio, Tex., Dec. 29.—Two
a breakdown of the Lausanne con- ,ni*n were shot to death late yestei^
fereiice in preference to letting Great day in the business section or
Britain hold the rich Mosul oil lands. Somerset, eighteen miles south of
In face of threats by Marquis Cur? Sen Antonio, as a result of trouble
son. British foreign minister, that said to have had its origin in the
the conference "will reach a break- discharge of a teacher in the Somer-
ing point" unless the Turks capitulate set public schools. The dead are:
on half a dozen points. Ismet Pasha, • Prof. W. A. Chapman, 49 years
armed with "stand oat" orders from .old, superintendent of the Somerset
Angora, refuted to give way. , public schools.
"We would be hanged from the | J. Glynn Harwood, 22, oil field
highest tree, in Anatolia if we raced- | worker.
ed from our position” one Turk dele- As a result of the killing. A. D.
gate said Halliburton, proprietor of n soft
* |drink stand at Somerset, was taker
—' i in to custody by deputy sheriffs.
According to information obtain-
ed by officers, Chapman killed Har-
wood and in turn was shot down by
Halliburton. Harwood was killed by
bullets fired from a revolver
when he and Chapman met almost
_____ I in the center of Main street.
New Brunswick, N. J.. Dec. «■— I The kil,in* w“' witnessed b,
night on my way home I received a | and is believed to be a member of A’,
tip that Majors was spending the ; Spencer’s gang.
SUSPECT ACTRESS
WAS MURDERED
Picher. Okla.. Dec. 29.—The death
of Mrs. Lucy Lloyd Bradley, 18 years
old. who died from burns received
in a rooming house fire Christmas,
has brought to light circumstances
which are being investigated by of-
ficers. Mrs. Bradley was s musical
comedy actress. She was found
senseless on the floor of her room ad-
joining the kitchen where the fire
started. The bed was disordered and
she was scantily attired, which gave
rise to the theory that she had been
sleeping and was suffocated before
she could locate the door, which was
locked. A wound in her head, the
MYSTERY NOTE
AND SUICIDE
Kansas City. Dec. 29.—Mystery
surrounds a note found oq the bank
of the Kaw river under the Central
avenue viaduct addressed to “Mrs.
Pearl Brimley. Harrisonville, Mo.”
The note was signed “Your Devil
Husband. George E.. Brimley,” and
stafcpd that the writer would jump
into the Kaw river at 12 o'clock
Thursday.
The threat waa carried out. accord-
ing to a negro boy, who said he saw
the man jum" off the hpd"e at noon
yesterday. Police have beyi unable
to learn the boy’s name.
H. H. Brown, Okmulgee, Okla.,
DENY GOVERNOR
WAS MOB LEADER
Bv United Press.
Shreveport, La., Dec. 29.—Friends
of Governor John M. Parker, of
Louisiana, today denied the executive
participated in the mob action • in
New Orleans, when eleven Italians
were taken from jail and lynched.
Charges that Governor Parker had
led the mob were made in a letter to
the executive, from T. W. Robertson,
former assistant attorney general.
The Italians were lynched after
they had been acquitted of murder
charges in connection with the slay-
ing of the New Orleans chief of
police.
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“BAGGAGE SMASHER”
MADE SUDDENLY RICH
origin of which has not been estab- found the note, which he turned over
lished. has given rise to a theory that ; to Kansas City. Kas., police. The
■ ’ * ' —- —!il- M—1 -*—• 1 note has been mailed to Mrs. Brim-
ley. I '
STILL EXPLOSION
KILLS TWO MEN
she probably met with foul play.
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PIRATES RAID ,
RUMRUNNERS
BID TROUBLE
IN LOUIS IIIM
Citizens Will Organize!
Heavy Defense to
Fight State
TO RAISE A MILLION
Prominent Citizens of Mer
Rouge Parish Raise Mil-
lion Dollars to Fight
Mob Cases.
Bv United Press.
Mer Rouge. La., Dec. 29.—A mil-
lion dollar defense is today being
organized to fight the efforts of the
state to rid Morehouse parish of ter-
rorist bands.
Friends of Dr. B. M. McKoin, for-
mer may Jr of the town, are a! jo
raising a $20,000 fund to prevent
his return here from Baltimore,
where he is held on a charge of
murder.
Federal agents today refused to
announce the details of the confes-
sions of two alleged members of the
terrorist mob, implicating 45 other
prominent citizens of the parish.
It is stated the confessions told of
the kidnaping of five men last Aug-
ust and described the slaying of
Watt Daniels and Thomas Richards.
HALL FAMILY
LEAVE COUNTRY'S
New York, Dec. 29.—A report
received by custom officials today
from Nassau, Bahamas, of a $1,000- [
000 liquor robbery on the high seas.
Wichita, Kans., Dec. 29.
Meade, a baggage “smasher” here
more than seventeen years, received
a welcome Christmas gift in a letter,
t-lling him he was sole heir to a
fortune of $40,000, left by his fath-
er, who had been a successful Wyo-
ming real estate dealer.
“Weil, I’m ready to get married
now, boys,” was all “Tobie”, as he
is known, had to say when asked
about his plans.
explo- | kept right on with his work
late moving trunks and handling dogs
Peoria, III.. Dec. 29.—The
_u______r sion of a still in a shed here
was taken by officials as proof of | Thursday kindled a fire in which other pets on the station plat-
reports that pirates were raiding Robert Walton was burned to death, form.
ruin runners off the Atlantic coast, j James Campbell perhaps fatally, Meade probably knows more
the Vincent A. ' scorched and all trace of a third man trunks nt sight than any baggage
new Dniniwm, is. uvc. 29.—- i . n .
Thu Hall family is scattering to all )acore* of __
corners of the globe. I ••S’
Today Mrs. Edward W. Hall, wid- 1
ow of the rector, who was slain with NO ACTION IS TAKEN
Mrs. Eleanor Mills, notified *11 the } ON NEGRO APPOINTEE
servant* to seek other employment —-
because die has completed arrange- * Washington. Dec. 29—The non-
menta to sail for Italy on January* ination of Walter L. Cohen, New
SO. ! Orleans negro to be comptroller of
Henry Stevens, brother of the the port of Now Orleans, which hae
widow, who was mentioned prom-
inently in
The report said
White which cleared from Nassau
for Miquelon October 21 with 10,-
500 cases of liquor, had been board-
ed off the New York coast and all
liquor and money she carried taken.
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CLAIM BANK IS
SHORT $20,000
Bv Associated Press.
wiped out. Police said the
upset the coils in a quarrel.
TWO MORE SHIPS
WRECKED IN GALE
men, smasher in Kansas. He is nersonally
.requainteti with most of the sample
lenses and trunks that are dropped
'off here and koows their destina-
tion in the city. Numerous/ sales-
Imen depend uno’i ‘‘Tobie” to bring
| their trunks around without even
'telling him they are in town.
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POSTAL QUOTA HALF MILLION
Bv Associated Press.
Bastrop, La.. Dec. 29.—Fortv-five
persons were implicated in the More-
house kidnaping and murders of last
August, according to two confessions
reported as delivered by the depart-
ment of justice men to state .iu-
thoritie? at New Orleans.
The state’s legal office in New Or-
leans declined to comment on the sub-
ject. saving they would neither deny
per aff:rm it.
The eor.fessions will not be mad"
public, it was regarded here, unt'l
the onen hearings begin at Ba?*rop
Ray in January.
It -vas stated the signers of the
confessions have been granted im-
lvnnitv by the state and are being ■«-
creted along with other witnesses who
’ be called men te testify.
However. it is regarded her. ;i«
probable ti.p arrests of some or .'II
the rv-n named i>"ll occur bef >r» the
open bearing begins.
One indication that the state :s
nrenarin^. for somp activity is seen in
the order to the national guard eom-
ranv at Mer Rouee to be nrenared to
movp at short notich. These troop?
were -tationed here to hoM down a
possible outbreak among the c:‘w,'"s
of this community and to assist the
e.v'l r.ot.horit’es in molrnv arrests.
At New Orleans .he govprpor nJ
the state, the attorney general, b:?
staff of legal assistants and the
four department of justice men were
n'ann ng out the future course ip the
invesrigations into the death of two
mtn. said to have been vitYlms of a
in b
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Washington, Dec. 29.—The an-
New York, Dec. 29.—While win-
ter blasts continued to lash the At- nual supply bill for the postal serv-
__________ iantic in fury today, two ships were ice, as reported to the house today.
McAlester. Okla.. Dec. 29.—A reported pounding to pieces in the carries a total of $584,614,191, or
shortage estimated at $20,000 or surf at the point of Long Island, one about $20,000,000 more than last
more has been discovered in the ac- the British Schooner Madonna V, an year. Estimated receipts for the
counts of the Bank of McAlester, at illicit rum runner carrying $500,000 surrent fiscal year indicated the re-
North McAlester, following the dis- jv orth of whisky and the other th* ! port said, that the annual deficit
-»w ....... appearance of Oscar M. Anderson, schooner Annabelle, from Baltimore, j would be approximately $31,000,000
been opposed by Senators Randsdell ! for twelve years cashier of the in- i.jfe savers took off the crew of the while revenues for the next fiscal
....... .......’ ------ ’ in a breeches buoy, year point to a deficit of not more
KANSAS CITY LIVESTOCK
the case, also announced and Broussard, of Louisiana, was con-(atitution^ it was aMounced^Thursd^ rum-carrier in a
he intends to depart shortly for
South America, and William, the
eccentric brother of the widow, is
going South.
TEXAS TRAIN ROBBER
PUT UNDER ARREST
senate commerce
action was taken.
committee.
sidered briefly again today by the night. Stockholders of the bank is- while the sailors from the Annabelle than $1,000,000. The sum of 81.-
— ‘ *■----—!— ■" 1 "-*■“ M— “---**■“ 500,000 is provided fqy the sir mail
service, which is $400,00 less than
last year.
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BLACKWELL OIL FIRM
TO PAY OUT $90,000
Blackwell, Dee. 29.—Tlw Black-
well Oil and Gas Company will pay
j 990.000 to the 976 stockholders of
the company, the payment ia a 80 per-
cent dividend on ito capital stock.
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rood a statement declaring that no bad to fight for their lives in the
depositor would lose a dollar and that mighty rollers when their life boat
the institution would continue busi- capsized. It is believed all were
ness without interruption. saved.
Los Angeles, Doe. 99.—Declared
MSUB SU
a»MW5r|- wrAnWB
pita! wMn 1m waa bsiag treated for —
oa injury. Aalerzeu. who waa or- By Aaeoeiatod Proas,
rested ea a "tip" tiMiugft an nnony- • HelHs. Dee. *9.—Frank Day, aged
■Mfa litter, ia tad to have admitted 99. a tenant farmer living six miles
heis tha man the officers wasted.
officers wanted.
£ B. Mathews, is
Caleeada. ae-
sad a member
city.
af this
from bod by nine m
last night, severely
ordered to leave the
the "next sanest."
officers today that the
was
deed man late
whipped and
mmmunity be-
WE HAVE WITH US TONIGHT
REX THEATRE—“Over The Hill,” from Will Cerleton’s poem.
First show 6:45, second show 8:46.
ROYAL THEATRE—“Ebb Tide,” from Stevenson’s story of the
South Seas. First show 7 o’clock, second show 9 o’clock.
BAPTIST CHURCH—Meeting of Boy Scouts in the basement
at 7:80 o’clock.
__ f. O. O. F. HALL—Regular meeting Encampment No. 28 at
7:80 o’clock.
ELKS HOME—Dance for CSks and guests from 9 to 12 o’clock.
BIG GAS WELL
Kosse, Tex., Dec. 29.—The Hum-
phrey Oil company’s Jones well No.
1 blew all tools out of the Role
and began runring wild, tnaRing
some oil and about 50,000,000 cuhi<
ife-et of wet gas here today.
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NOTED BREWER
HUS HIMSELF
I By Associated Press.
St. Louis. Dec. 29.—William J.
Lemp. president of the Lemp Browing
Company, committed suicide today
by shooting himself twice through the
heart.
This ia the third auicide in the
famous Brower family, hia father and
aiater having taken Hwir own lives.
By United Pres?.
Xsn.-as Citv, Dec. 29.—Cattle,
receipts, 10.000; unsettled; steers.
$5.50 d? 1 2.50 : cows, $2.50fff'C.G5;
heifers, *4.65iW9.no.
Hogs—Receipts, 7.(#00; lowers
bulk of sales, $8.00@8:15; heavy.
$7.90<J?8.15.
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GIRL INJURED BY
WILD DRIVING
Okmulgee, Dec. 29.—“You’d bet-
ter get out from behind the car or
you’ll be run down just as that man
was run down on the Morris road the
other day,” was the caution that Alma
Moore gave to her sister Leona, as
the latter attempted to push their
automobile into gear here last night.
Hardiv had she uttered the words
before a big touring car coming up
from behind, crashed into Leona
More and pinned her between the
two cars, the girl’s automobile ^eifeg
driven 2 feet by the impact.
Two men drove the touring car.
Without waiting to determine the
extent of Mias More’s injuries, they
backed up and drove awoy.
Miss Moore waa taken to the hos-
pital where it ia said her injuries are
serious though probably not fatal.
Police are being assisted by citizens
in conducting s search for the ear
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