Nowata Daily Star (Nowata, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 356, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 14, 1924 Page: 1 of 4
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Capitol Building
WEDNESDAY EVENING
WEATHER
Today and Wednesday—Unsettled |
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VOLUME FIFTEEN— NO 35*,
Telegraph News Service—“Today’s News Today.’
NOWATA OKLAHOMA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 14. 1924.
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CIRCULATION TODAY, 2.289 COPIES
New French Government to Work For Peace
MARLAND SEES
DEMAND FOR OIL
Two in Mayes County
Jail for Murder of
Little Girl
New York, May 14.—The maj-
or pools are declining and unless
new pool is bruuirht into pro- j
duction this year, drafts will have
to be made on storage. K. W. Mar-
land, president of Murlnnd Oil,
told stockholders a* their annual
meeting today. Production and
consumption arc now on u bal-
ance and the industry had en-
tirely recovered its earning power,
he asserted. Net income of the
company and its subsidiaries in
the first quarter was $2,H92,837
after deducting $737,237 for de-
preciation, deplet'.on and abandon-
ed wells and leases, equal to
share on the capital stock. Work-
ing capital Is $0,599,963.
Angry Mob Visits Jail But
Sheriff Pleads With Mem-
bers to Let Law Take
Its Course.
United Press
Pryor, Okla., May 14.—Stop Coch-
ran and Eli Stick, Cherokee Ind-
ians, are being held in the county
jail without bail in connection with
the death of lna Thompson, nine
year old girl, whose body was
found near here Sunday. The ar-
raignment of the two men was
postponed indefinitely, in the be-
lief that they will voluntarily tell
of their participation in the crime
if given time, according to Sher-
iff I-ayton.
High Chicken and Bud Tagg,
arrested in connection with the
crime, have been liberated, as they
proved to the satisfaction of the
officers that they had nothing to
do with the murder.
Sheriff Layton last night dis-
persed a crowd which threatened
to mob the men. Four guards
have been placed over the accused
men.
I Tulsa. May 14.—Walter L. Sand-
ers, said to be part Osage Indian ur-
rested Monday night at Bartlesville
with Mrs. Dora Warrior has been
identified as one of the two bank
bandits who last Thursday robbed
the Farmers & Merchants bank at
Catoosa and escaped after kidnaping
B. Paul, the cashier, and Mrs.
G. Lewis, a customer, according' Oklahoma City, May 14.—The city1 Stillwater. May 11.—M. J. . .
information received here from of Tulsa was declared liable to ac-' Otey, former finamial secretary , **V * aBed ”res-'-
Bartlesville. tion for the recovery of damages by 0f the Oklahoma A. and VI. college, I , Me A1 ester, May 14.—Search for
The identification was made this Miss May Armstrong, who alleged on trial in district court here on J., Uve prisoners who are still at sion us to procedure,
morning by Paul. An officer from she was injured when she stepped „ charge of embezzlement grow- ]l‘,e.rt>’ ‘r',m the penitentiary fol-' committee has devoted itself entirely
Cluremore arrived at Bartlesville a into an excavation in a street there, j,ig out 0f an allege I shortage of a break jor liberty yesterday t«. the Zihlman phase of the inquiry
short time later to return the man the state supreme court held today. $133,000 in his accounts at the ’ .......1 " 1 f“ ~
to Rogers county. Miss Armstrong sued the city, the institution, took the stand in his
Sanders was arrested with Mrs. Oklahoma National guards company own dcfense when court retonven-
Warrior after they had gotten into and the contracting firm of Tibbets today. The defense will close
a Hudson automobile fitting the de- and Pleasant. All demurred, and jts case wjth Otcy’s testimony,
scription of the one in which the the district court at Tulsa sustained ( ' prosecution rested "lifter
bandits were thought to have elud- the demurrer. The supreme court, f witnesses
ed officers. Mrs. Warrior is said to however, held the city was liable. 1 ‘ — *
be the wife of Bob Warrior, Indian -;£■;-
of Pawhuska, and formerly lived at . tmniAnin uttnn
Collinsville^ until recently when she A|J|TJ||D V UUIL'L'
Sheriff Quiets Angry Mob.
Pryor, May 14.—About 100 men
marched to the Mayes county court
house here shortly before midnight
last night, threw a cordon about
the building and then pressed
closer, muttering threats of vio-
lence against the four men con-
fined there charged with assault-
ing and killing 9-year-old lna
Thompson in the Spavinaw hills,
near Salina Saturday night.
Sheriff Jess Layton mounted the
steps of the courthouse and dra-
matically urged the mob to let
th$ law take IW course. For half
an hour the sheriff pleaded and
then the mob melted away as
silently and swiftly as it had
formed.
Sheriff Layton said after the
mob had dispersed he believed the
crisis had passed and he had no
further fear of violence.
Stop Cochran, 27, captured in
a cabin on Saline Creek gulley
early Tuesday, is held here
charged with the murder of the
girl. The others held are Charley
Tagg, 37, High Chicken, 26, and
Eli Stick, 25. All are of the
Cherokee tribe.
Late Tuesday the four Indians
were taken into the yard of the
jail for a picture. Long before
they appeared outside, a crowd
dr«isv around the jail. As the cam
eranian snapped the pictures, the
crowd jeered and hissed. Men
uttered threats in low tones.
Eli Stick was brought from the
Delaware county jail here shortly
before the Indians were stood for
u picture. When he arrived
mstody of Deputy Sheriff Miller,
another crowd congregated about
the car. Stick was rushed to
cell.
Three jagged. blood-stained
rocks, a blood-stained saddle and
Idanket and blood-stained clothing
taken from Cochran, was the mute
evidence of the brutal crime pre-
sented County Attorney W. W
Powell.
It was on the horse belonging
to Stick that the body of the girl
was carried into its lonely crypt
along the Salina road, county of
filers here believed.
Tagg, Chicken and Stick will
he held until an investigation
the murder is completed, probably
tomorrow, Powell said today.
Further evidence presented the
county attorney showed that
dance was held at the home of
Tagg Saurday night. His home
is near the farm of Jim Thomp-
son, grandfather of the slain girl.
lna was herding in her grand-
HARRELD CASTS
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE GREETS M1LITA CHIEF IN CAPITAL
FOR CONFERENCE WITH FEDERAL BUREAU HEAD
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ROBBER ARRESTED
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M ITU la Commanders from the
various states went to Washington
recently to confer with Major Gen-
iaral George C. Rlckarda, Chief of
the Military Bureau They were
received at the White House by
I’realJent Cooltdge . who took a
doty tillered! to tha$r plans to bet-
ter the states' military estabflsh-
raents. The President Is seen !q
the center of the above photo-
graph with General Itickarda.
COLORADO GETS
ROAD CONVENTION
Muskogee, May - 1 4.--Colorado
Springs was chosen as the 1925
convention 0-7 Oi the Albert
Pike Highway association at the
final session oi me convention in
the Orpheum.
Cyrus Avery, Tulsa, *a< reelect-
ed president and E. B. (iuthrev,
also of Tulsa, secretary. J. M.
Berry another Tulsa resident was
elected treasurer.
The four vice-presidents of the
associaton chosen from the states
traversed by the highway are: L
D. Mitchell, Haskell. Oklahoma;
George Callahan. Hot Springs. Ar
kansas; C. E. Thomas, Colorado
I Springs, Colorado; and E. C. War
ren. Dodge Citv, Kansas. ___
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HOUSE UNDECIDED
ON LANGLEY CASE
HIGH COURT RULES OTEY TRIAL IS
FOR TULSA GIRL NEARING END
FIVE CONVICTS
STILL AT LARGE
Washington, May 14—House lead-
ers were undertermined today as to
what course to pursue with regard
to Representative Langley, Republi-
can, Kentucky, convicted of violat-
ing the prohibition lows.
The committee appointed to inves-
tigate the charge against him us well
as those against Representative Zihl-
man. Republican. Maryland, dis-
cussed the Langley conviction at a
I meeting today but reached no deci-
Thus fur the
SOCIALIST 10
BE PREMIER
Will Attempt to Stabil-
ize Finances and
Secure Peace
POINCAIRE BEATEN
Former Administration De-
cisively Defeated in Elec-
tion—Cabinet Will Re-
sign June 1.
came to Tulsa.
The case is expected to he in
the hands of the jury this after-
I noon.
Little interest in the trial is
IS ASSAULTED
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nFPIQIVF V0TF an^Tau^Lda?towhTtTfea-
L/LvlJl lb f 1/ 1 L| tured the Dorothy King and Louise
_ | Lawson cases, with Mrs. Howard
Johnson, wife of the author of “Tan-j
14.—Senator gerine,” as the victim, was brought
being shown however, only a few
persons remaining in the lourt
room to listen to the long drawn
out and monotonous testimony.
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TULSA WOMAN IS
WINNER IN SUIT
is being redoubled today following and expects to muke public its find-
the report that three of the fugitives ings in this respect in a day or so.
had broken into a store at Haywood, | Leaders generally agreed it would
fifteen miles west of here, early this be best to await a committee recom-
morning in a search for food. No | mendation before making any move
word of their capture had been re-Jin regard to Langley,
ceived by Warden Key up to noon,
hut it is thought that they will be
rounded up in a short time, as it is
believed they are in hiding in the
immediate vicinity of McAlester.
City, May 14.—The
Minerva Ann Shafer
Washington, May _______
Harreld cast the decisive vote Tues- to light today.
day when the senate undertook to ( y|rs Johnson is under the care of |
pass the Bursum pension bill over physicians while the police depart-1 Oklahoma
the president’s veto. ment is investigating her story of hav- suit of Mrs.
The bill provided for increased jn(- been garrotted and robbed of of Muskogee against Fred R.
pensions for soldiers of the Civil diamonds valued at $9,000 in an up- Letcher and the New York Oil Co.,
war and others prior to that one. On pt,r Broadway hotel. Mrs. Johnson usking that she be decreed one-half
the original roll call Harreld was re- ]ay for hours in a bathroom suite, owner of the stock in the company
corded as voting to puss the bill over gagged and helpless, after having which the district lourt of Tulsa
the veto. |been in the company of a man and county decided against her, was
During the voting Senator Ernest, woman whom she met at a white reversed and remanded for new
of Kentucky held a whispered con-J way party. | trial by the state supreme court
ference with Harreld and when the | Harry Lasser, said to have a po- Tuesday.
secretary had finished calling the roll, lice record, is under arrest in con-
Senator Harreld asked how he was nection with the case,
recorded. _-
Upon being told he had voted to
COOLIDGE WOULD
the veto.
He explained privately that he felt
no such emergency exists as would
warrant the passage of the bill over
the president’s veto.
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CHARGES WIFE
WITH FORGERY
Mrs. Shafer’s business transac-
tions with Let* her began in 1907
when she was 70 years old, the
evidence indicated, and was termi-
nated in 1919. according to her
petition and in 1909, according to
Letcher’s reply.
The woman placed $20,000 with
Letcher in a township and oil
[development company, she claimed.
By United Press. Later, *he alleged. s'h‘* _,was disre-
’ Washington, May 13.—President garded as a partner and was not
MODIFY JAP ACT
New York, May 14.—Mrs. El-
aine I-ee Harris, wife of Beverly
D. Harris, former vice president
of the National City hank, was ar-
rested Tuesday night charged xkrith
forging the name of her husband
to a letter she offered as evidence
in her attempt to obtain a new
trial in Harris’ suit for annulment
of their marriage.
The letter Mrs. Harris was ac-
cused of forging was presented
to Supreme Court Justice Geig-
erich last April.
It was purported to be a pho-
tostatic copy of a letter written by
Harris to a woman friend while
his suit for annulment was being
tried.
In it the banker was alleged to
have contended he believed his
wife guiltless of the charges he
had made against her. Harris the
next dav branded the letter a*
“an unqualified forgery.’’
Coolidge today made another attempt consulted in a transfer of stock,
to modify the Japanese exclusion Letcher claimed his _ company
provision in the new immigration “went out of business in 1912
.bill, when he called in conference and that in 1913 he was “broke.
'Secretary Hughes and several mem- Later he made $’.0,000, he said,
bers of both houses in an attempt to in the Newkirk field by dealing in
soften the terms of the draft, it is oil leases. and the New 5 ork
authoritatively reported. company was_organized._
father's cows early in the evening
when she disappeared. Tagg had
been seen talking to her shortly
before, Powell said.
WE HAVE WITH US TONIGHT
ROYAL THEATRE—Herbert Rnwlinson in “The Clean-Up’.
Also two-reel comedy. Night shows 7 and 9.
REX THEATRE—“Hell’s Hole.” with Charlie Jones, Maurice
Flynn and Ruth Clifford. Comedy. “Monks a la Mode”. Also
Stewart, the White Yogi. Night shows 7 and 9 o’clock.
ELKS HOME—Regular meeting of Nowata B. P. O. Elks No.
1151 at 8 o’clock.
MEMORIAL HALL—Regular meeting of Modern Woodmen at
8 o’clock.
MASONIC HALL—Regular meeting of Rainbow Girls at 8
o’clock.
THURSDAY
REX THEATRE—“The Wanfers”. Comedy “Rambling Bones”.
Also Stewart, the White Yogi. Night shows 7 and 9 o’clock.
ROYAL THEATRE—“Flowing Gold," from Rex Beach’s fa-
mous novel. Also Pathe News, Topics of the Day and Aesop’s
Fables. Matinee 2 and 4, night shows 7 and 9 o’clock.
MEMORIA LHALL—Regular meeting of Knights of Pythias
lodge at 8 o’clock.
METHODIST CHURCH—Commencement exercises for Nowa-
ta High School. Address by Rev. John A. Rice, of Tulsa. 8 o’clock.
McAlester, May 14.—Five of
the nine convicts who escaped from
the state penitentiary Tuesday
were still at large today.
Of the nine men who made
their get-away through a tunnel
leading from the stockade of the
prison brick plant, four were
quickly recaptured.
They were Lorenzo Smith and
A. Benson, under five year *en-
tences; Arthur Henderson, life,
termer, sent, up from Chiekasha
for murder; and Will Tait, con-
victed in Lawton for the murder
of a taxicab driver.
The five men at large are;
Asa Yarber. under 25-year sen-
tence from Pottawatomie county
for robbery; Blackie Rayburn, un-
der 40-year sentence from Okla-
homa county for robbery; Edward
Delano, under 25-year sentence
from Grady county for bank rob-
bery; Ray Hall, under 5-year sen-
tence from Washita county for
burglary; H. Balch, under 5-year
sentence from Tulsa, for robbery.
Five prison employees were sus-
pended for their alleged negligence
in permitting the men to escape.
Thy include J. M. Hickman, super-
intendent of the brick plant. R.
L. Folsom, foreman, and three
guards.
CONFIRM DEATH OF
CHINESE LEADER
United Press
Pekin, May 14.—The foreign of-
fice today officially announced the
death of Dr. Sun Yat Sen. the
South China leader. The United
Press dispatches from Hong Kong
reported the death of Dr. Sen yes-
terday. h"t the report was not con-
firmed until today.
Dr. Sun Yat Sen has been one
of the outstanding political fig-
ures in China for the past twenty
years. He was one of the lead-
ers of the republican revolution
thirteen years ago which overturn-
ed the Manchu dynasty.
Subsequently, Dr. Sen charge!
the Pekin government with dis-
loyalty to the republicans and, with
a group of n few followers, estab-
lished the South China republic*
at Canton.
In January, 1923, Dr. Sen tried
to unite the various factions to
work for the unification of China,
but his efforts failed. It was in
that month thut troops supporting
Dr. Sen seized Canton. Previously
Dr. Sen’s army had been in pos-
session of Canton but was forced
out.
STORM WASHES UP
PLANTED “BOOZE"
Cape May, N. J., May t4.—
Hundreds of gallons of alcohol and
several hundred cases of whisky
were washed ashore by the five-
dav storm which came to an end
Tuesday, according to rt ports
from fisheries between here and
Seaside park.
The goods were believed to have
been thrown overboard by rum
boats caught in the storm.
Residents along the shore have
been salvaging the liquor. One man
at Seaside park was reported to
have recovered 35 cases of choice
Scotch.
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MONTANA SENATOR
IS NOT GUILTY
By United Press.
Paris. May 14.—"The first effort
of the new socialist government will
be to assure financial stability with
the regime of the international en-
tente and to secure ]>eace,” Edward
Herriott, radical leader and probable
successor to Premier Poincaire de-
clared today. It is considered prob-
able that Herriott will be invited to
form a cabinet when the Poincaire
government resigns on June 1.
Herriott is now the socialist mayor
of Lyons and is considered the most
likely sucessoT to the premiership,
hut he must make arrangements for
the support of other parties of the
left element who hold a balance of
power in the new chamber.
By United Press.
Washington, May 14—“Not guilty
will be the verdict which will be re-
turned by a committee of his col-
leagues who “tried” Senator Burton
Wheeler, of Montana, on charges of
misusing his office. The report com
pletel.v exonerating Senator Wheeler
is ready for submission to the com-
mittee today and will be made before
the end of the week.
Senate action on the charge is un-
derstood to he unnecessary in the
event the charges against Senator
Wheeler fail to stand up. Senator
Sterling-, of South Dakota, who as-
sumed the role of “prosecutor” is
expected to file a minority re-
port.
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BILLY SUNDAY IS
SERIOUSLY ILL
Memphis, May 14.—Rev. Wil-
liam A. (Billy) Sunday, who be
came ill here Saturday, left Tues-
day night aboard a special train
for Rochester, Minn., for treat-
ment at the Mayo Brothers’ clinic.
' Sunday, who was conducting re-
vival services here, was taken ill
with what was believed to have
been ptomaine poisoning, but his
condition became such that it was
decided that he should go to Ro-
chester hospital.
It was stated that authorita-
tive statement as to h.s condition
probably would he issued within a
few hours.
Poincaire “Snowed Under"
London, May 14.—The landslidu
of liberal votes beneath which the
’bloc national" in France lies buried,
demonstrated a> far as British opin-
ion is concerned, that Poincaire’x
voice was not the voice of France.
Although increased taxation un-
doubtedly had considerable influ-
ence in the result of the French elec-
tions, Poincaire’s defeat, which was
hailed with delight in British govern-
mental and liberal circles, is generally
regarded here as repudiation of Kit
Ruhr p>Aicy.
Predictions are freely made on all
sides that new leadership in France
cannot fail to promote European
peace and economic stabilization and
go far to restore that Anglo-French
friendship which the Ruhr venture so
seriously damaged.
The British press is almost unani-
mous as to the beneficiul effect of
removal of Poincaire.
Even Lord Rothermere’s pro-
French Daily Mail admits “France
has shown her overmastering desire
for peace even at the price of great
sacrifices.”
Lord Beaverbrook’s Daily Express,
in an eloquent editorial, character-
izes Sunday s vote as belated recog-
nition of the fact that coal cannot
be extracted with bayonets, nor a na-
tion made to pay by creation of in-
dustrial paralysis.
Lloyd George's Daily Chronicle
says: "We do not believe that any
British prime minister or any party
could successfully negotiate a last-
ing settlement as long as Poincaire
was premier.”
KANSAS PHYSICIAN
IS NOT GUILTY
Olathe. Kansas., May 14.—A jury
in district court at 7:45 o’clock Tues-
day night acquitted Dr. Kenn H.
Uhls, former head of the Uhls clinic,
Overland Park, charged with being
the instigator in the holdup January
2 of Louis D. Breyfogle, jr., an
Overland Piyk dairyman.
When the verdict was announced
after the second ballot. Dr. Uhls
jumped from his seat and kissed his
wife, who began weeping. It was
the first emotion he hud registered
since the trial began.
Life has just begun for me with
this acquittal.” he declared as he
clasped his wife.
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KANSAS CITY LIVESTOCK
By United Press.
Kansas City, May 14.—Cattle, re-
ceipts. 8,000; calves, 1,000; market
active and higher; top price $11.10;
bulk of sales, $8.00 to $10.20.
Hog; — Receipts, 9,000; market
dow and higher; top price, $7.20;
bulk of sales, $7.10 up.
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