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Whoever produces anything by weary
labor, does not need a revelation from
heaven to teach him that he has a right
to the thing produced.
—Robert G. Ingersoll.
Vol. 1—No. 88
Oklahoma Leader
Full Leased Wire United Press Report—Member Federated Press.
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1920
FIRST EDITION
PRICE, THREE CENTS
SINN FEIN PLOT TO WRECK PLANTS CHARGED
OFFI
GEH
ED
COALER
' Slays War Buddy Who
Stole Wife's Love.
MIT
$300,000 Reported Lost and
Dennis Takes Over Institu-
tion for State.
COALGATE. Okla., Nov. 25.- Fred
G. Donnls, state bank commissioner,
has closed the doors of the Citizens'
State hank here, following reported
shortages of more than $300,000.
The failure Is reported to ho doe.
Ill part, to the Inability of cotton
growers to meet their debts, con-
tracted for the harvesting and mark-
eting of a product that had fallen in
price to about one-fourth of last
year's level.
Because he failed to report the
deficiency In funds, Hoy S. Hotch-
kiss, a vice president of the Institu-
tion, has boon arrested and placed
under a $5,000 bond. He is charged
• with having violated the state bank-
Myrtlc
rAxxfioS.
—ABOUT 300 YEARS AGO DEVLIN CALLS
CHARGE FALSE
Those Murdered In Haiti and
Santo Domingo Must Mock
U. S. Official.
BY LAWRENCE TODD.
Federated Press Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—Three
specters, gaunt and ugly, borer over
the series of lavish banquets which
Latin American ambassadors and
ministers here are giving for Secre-
tary of JState Colby, as a prelude to
his departure from Newport News
aboard the battleship Florida with a
retinue of sixteen subordinates, for a
formal visit to Rio Janeiro, Monte-
video and Buenos Aires.
Jlaiti Is the first specter, with her
I land ruled by American marines, her
president vainly protesting to the
world against the "oppression of the
-I . i a i ut „,i American minister to Haiti," and her
In* laws by operating an «n«,lv.nt "~"s *""t down * A" rH
bank. I is in Jail in San Francisco await
This failure is said to be the most trial for murder. San Francisco
can forces. All the press and all the
cabinets and congresses of Central-
nativ in tho Ht:itp ,n.„i and South American buzz with ex-
The faUureoftho bank at Jones ; £*£ «< "h
KrL'Ki'is;:r^trrs.an:^ r f
... tw_ ;auegea moonsumti, wuu imo. Bpecter> American marines not only
occupy and rule her territory, but
smaller failures at Mulhall and Bos-
well have cost the state another $80,-
000. Approximately $500,000 has ;
thiHLheen taken from the state tuar-
antee fund.
The Coalgate bank, reorganized
under the auspices of Dennis. Is
known as the Security State bank
and has now J. L. Wilkin of Okla-
homa CJty for its president.
Among the missing funds are said
io be $23.00o belonging to the city of
Coalgate, $25,000 to Coal county, and
$10,000 to the city school fund.
SENIOR GIRLS DISAPPROVE
OF BEING "TRAMPETTES"
Senior girls of the Oklahoma City
high school expressed disapproval of
the "hobo" festivities Wednesday aft-
ernoon. Freshies, sophs and juniors
disapproved of the seniors.
Many refused to don tho "tramp"
dross with the remark that it was
"unladylike" and not dignified.
Teachers say that the day is get-
ting to be an old. old story and it is
hard enough to keep order during
the rest of the year without having
to contend with a bunch of bolster?
ous "tramps" and "trampettes.'
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Bumper Yields Reported-
Gov't Reports Declare
Everybody Prospered.
ICERS
M
lLD
HADED
her president is in exile, her entire Three hundred years ago the Pilgrim fathers and
STILL
Thanksgiving feast, and the pumpkin, which matures
(government dissolved and fled, and ! mothers landed on the wellknown Plymouth rock in to a juicy ripeness about this season, also ranks high
her national existence suspended. tjle heart of aristocratic Massachusetts. Feeling elated on the list of edibles.
For Uitin Apierica, Santo Domingo is over t)u, gafe landing of their cargo of Pilgrim furni- Several decades ago some enterprising pre
|dead with Haiti. ture, which was later to make their descendants rich for a cranberry dealer faked
Mexico 1 hirvLSpecter. , th«*v fared forth into the forest, whipped the wily red- succulent red berry was alsc
Mexico Ik the thffd specter. As Hkin. and returned laden with wild turkey. Then they Tnanksgivlng dinner, and since then it has performed | millions in
n >en through the anxious eyes Of feasted and gave thanks.
Rio and Montevideo and Buenos Since then every "last Thursday in November" there
Aires, Mexico holds the battle front been much feasting and some returning of thanks, aud solemnity, a time for stock taking and bestowing
| for Latin America against Yankee The turkey has always remained the symbol of the i of praise to the Almighty.
imperialism such as has been worked
The Lady Jurors Would Rather Cook
upon Haiti and Santo Domingo. Anil
i to proud Mexico, struggling for liber- i
Negro In Hospital In Stroud "nd,
i ti ail n . whelming odds, Latin America sees
and Three Others Being a new insult tendered in the treat-
Held. ment of Roberto Pesqulera. the rep-
" resentatlve of the Mexican nation at
STROUD, Nov. 25.—-The .till raid- Washington Thl. Is the story: women. «" ■>. .B """" " '""/were serving on tho jury might be
ed fight miles from here by Federal At 4 "1clorlt °" °ct°ber ,2 ' **cre', >>l1 duty as revealed in their service j .ulnwed to ..tomo home linil „,ok
Prohibition Officers J. P. Brown and ,ar>'Ifta Juror® are magistrates | dinner.
Asquith's Condemnation of
Sinn Feiners and Black
and Tans Passes.
LONDON. Nov. 25. All Britain
y\Hh startled today by the charges
iiu.de by Sir i lamar Greenwood,
i hief secretary for Ireland, that the
Sinn Feiners had plotted to blow up
the Mverpool docks and the Man-
chester power and water plants.
Greenwood's assertion, made dur-
ing debate in commons, was hotly
denied by Irish leaders. Joseph Dev-
lin, Irish leader, declared the charges
were false and that they were made
to discredit the Sinn Fein.
Britain is on the alert for a Sinn
i Fein outbreak, despite exposure of
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 (By 17.1 the alleged flani. So far the king's
P.i One ton of grain, veget *bles and jsecret agents have been able to pre-
fruits for each of the 107.000,000 vent and expose the steps planned
Inhabitants of the I'nlted States is by the Sinn Fein.
the response of the Kirmers to the 1 The government's attitude toward
popular appeal of the country for Ireland was upheld in the house of
I more and cheaper food, reports to commons yesterday. Former Pre-
the agriculture department indicated mier Asqulth Introduced a resolution
i appropriately today Thanksgiving requesting peace be established in
i (|ay Ireland at once and condemning both
I Farmers now aro harvesting the Sinn Fein assassinations ami the
last of the butuper yield, almost un- Black and Tan reprisals. This was
precedented in the nation's history, amended, however, and passed by
City dwellers, sitting down today a big majority. The Irish question
to their holiday fare, might reflect was before the house of lords again
that the nation's harvest is bountiful today. Lord' Middleton planned to
enough to feed every inhabitant his move adjournment of debate on the
own weight once each month during home rule bill this afternoon to give
the coining twelve, if the average .the government opportunity to
American resident (including chil- , broaden and improve it.
agent dren and infants) is rated at 100
story saying that the'pounds, and there still remains
lso a part of the original enough food to fatten the starving
millions in central and southern Eu-
every year. I rope at the same rate for eight more
Thanksgiving is intended to be a day of meditation months. £
Farmers Complain of Bounty.
! Farmers complain that the very
bounty of their harvest has brought;
many of their number to the very j
verge of ruin because of reduced
prices.
These, they charge, are absorbed j
by speculators and middle men and j
not passed along to the consumer, j
Farmers, have made some gains |
though in land values which have
AMONG THE
"DIZZIES" |
LONDON Nov 25 (By U. P.)— 12 o'clock, interrupted the proceed- which women might not like to try
Wnmon'o wnverines between love! ln*H and asked that their wives who) in company with men.
were *ervln«r on the lurv might be The recorder said he could not —-jjd per cent in some locali-
e law I f.
Ben F. Moore of Oklahoma C ity, has to recognition of the De La Huerta-
now superseded all others in th^Obregon reBtae in Mexi . nnd.an-
an end to
system which has '
scratch their gray wigs. The women, with tears in their
. „ A, ,, , At Hf.ih Qiiuripr spfminnq thfl first eyefc,"hatched their husbands turned
state, in the estimation of the offi- nounced to the press that the Mexl-j _ away, doomed to hunger as an alter-j hitherto obtained of ordering women
cers who insist that it is the largest can Problem was about to become case to be tried b> a mixed j ) native to bread and checse, when the . out of court whenever any case spe-
they have yet encountered. a problem no longer. He acmed^tnat men and women progressed splen- magistrate indignantly ordered them cially offensive was on the lists for
the court and asked them not hearing.
a.ke "frivolous interruptions." ( Now that women are learning to I
11 un ..v - of the women couldn't under- fill the Job so nicely, male jurymen j
beat the rosistants, all of thefn ne- edged as a_ woman juror at once rose and pro- stand the word "frivolous" as ap-jare trying to slip out oi their obll-
, . . .. i ties and in smaller though substan-
framed, and the ease was],,,,, percentages throughout the en-
they have yet encountered. a prooiem no longer, ne aonen max men and women progressed splen- magist
in conjunction with Ed Elworth ! recognition was near; the situation jjjjjy until the court adjourned for out of
and William Perry, deputy sheriff of Prevailing hitherto was to be happily iunch. The magistrate ordered the to ma
Lincoln comity, tho federal officers ended. Mexico was to be acknowl- trjaj he regumeti at •* o'clock. A One ol
ck In time, because I have to look cause, as she
I groes and after effectively subdu- with a responsible government.
i 01 NTEKFEIT PROOF MOKKV. lng (henl discovered a find of no No Kxplnnatioi.; No Apology.
BERLIN, Nov,. 25.—Mixture of less than fifty gallons of corn whis- But since ('ay Roberto j after my husband.
minute iron and nickel particles in ky and 500 gallons of mash. Pesqulera has not been received at magiBtrate u- -
paper money will render : Counter- Charles Pettis, the negro who is the state department. His notes and ^ie jnterval by a quarter of an hour.
feit-proof, according to twe Prague said to have been operating the still, letters have remained unanswered.
inventor of the process?. A magnet is in a hospital here, having been j It appears, and no invitation has come — _
will pick up the paper whereas coun- 1 hurt, the officers say. because he I" him to continue the drscusBlons j UBUaj calm when two'men arrived atjwn.s an unpleasant and indecent on
terfeited paper would not be lifted, would not submit quietly to arrest. | that were to have quickly brought
The particles must be mixed in dur- The three other negroes, George recognition. No explanation; no
ing manufacture, hence it is consid-; Lindsay, A. D. Goodwin and an un-, apology; no word to indicate why
ered doubtful whether counterfeit- known negro from Cushing are in Mexico had been given the familiar
ers could afford to make such stock, jail at ('handler. | double-cross of the Colby-\\ ilson
graft any new principle on th
as now
tried by the mixed jury. This pu^sj^ statRH accordlng to ag-
.liculture department reports.
I Even a 10 per cent jump In land
values and machinery would give tho
farmers an aggrexate profit of some-i
thing more than $5,000,000,000, it is j
estimated.
j Other government reports showing j
I , L . . . — , | .... i , . „ . | .. that the entire nation has enjoyed ,
tested: "I cannot get home and plied to her old man's dinner, be- nations. nf „ kin,i „re nlentlful.
xplallled. -lie 111 "lie court, a darinir iirnto«tor I pr?BpB™
and to her mind when his name
, . I darius protester. | - Ap'prox'lmately five million person.
Hummat enormous!" and to her mind when his name was read out. re- wi10 «aid income taxes to the fpderal
The magistrate gallantly extended | his dinner was a very solid fact. idled in a loud voice "On strike! jOVOrnment received an average I
When women jurors for the llrst He was not called upon to serve. cOm0 of $3000 or an aggregate «<f 1
At another Quarter Sessions, the j time sat at Walsall Quarter Sessions, Meantime, tho women are titkiiii^ [ C-.V, n00 000 in salaries, rents and |
whole court was startled out of its counsel stated that the opening case matters philosophically and placidly, j dividends This is more than half
Are Banks to Have Funds
Contributed to Red Cross?
Hanna Tells How $23,000,- after? Do they distribute it back
non Mnv Bp Used for Fin- among the original contributors?
uuu may oe ubeu iui i in Have any of the variolls relief fvindB
atlCia! upcrstions. previously gathered and used In the
; above manner ever been redistrlb-
i uted to the original contributors?
' If this fund to prevent "The
WASHINGTON. Nov. 25.-Who will j Slaughter of tlie Innocent." is meant
, t .oo AAA aaa ♦!,«♦ ! for disbursement in some other
pocket uml keep the $.3,000,000 that fushlon that fllct ilt nnt ln,iicated in
you are asked to give for the relief the printed appeal. Perhaps those
of three and a half million children who make the appeal have not heard
in Central and Eastern Europe? about the above familiar process. In
program.
Mexican government railroad
stocks and Mexican oil stocks went
up, handsomely, when the promise of
recognition was published. Stock
market gamblers who were on the
right side of the market made some
v«wwww^wJu^-.vrArJJJu1J/1rrr- . money qU{ that Seems to have been
Do the banks keep that money ever the sole outcome of the Colby an-
STILL ISM
nouncement—except one thing.
Latin-America was affronted. The
treatment given Mexico today might
be given Argentina or Brazil or
Uruguay or Chile or Peru tomor-jm-
Latin - American diplomats 1 cerning the
County Attorney Contends He
Has Facts to Prove Charges
Filed.
TEXAS OIL AT
FIFTY FEET
Farmers Planning to Pump
"Black Gold" With
Windmills.
A_mj 10r ofjheni bring knitting
1,1
Cf
HE
GO POL!
OP
FORT STOCKTON, Pecos County,
Texas, Nov. 25.—(By IT. P.)—Oil op-
erators here today were planning de-
ARDMORE, Okla., Nov. 26.—Ard- j velopraent of Pecos county's 'wind
Uliiura con-1 mill petroleum field.
row.
of the KiKantic sum spent by the na-
tion during the great war. These flK-
j ures are based on reports of the In-
ternal revenue bureau.
j In the records of the labor de-
j parlment are reports showing that
I millions of workers enjoyed wages
. highest in history, but living costs
exceeded the advance in waeeB.
- In addition to earnings that amply 1
provide food, shelter and clothing.
~ hundreds of thousands found theoi- i
Crowded Dives Yield Fitz- selves with remaining funds suffi-
morrte' a Rifl Hiul eient to satisfy the need for recrea-
IIIUI115> oops a Dig nam 1U)n and luxuries. According to one
Trials Friday. estimate, based on government re-
ports, tho nation is buying entertain-
CHICAGO, Nov. 25.—Thanksgiving ment at theaters, clubs, dance halls, |
aay was merely November 25 for a parks and other places of amusement j
rate of nearly one billion dol-
A total of approximate- |
---g „-,T hooting of Jake Hamon, With one well producing enough large part of Chicago's underworld, at tin
faced that fact. So did the people millionaire oil man. Reports are so I from a rtel)th Ilf ftrty-aeven feet to1 Wlth tharies Fitzsmorrls. Chi-1 lars a >'>'ar.
who live below the Rio Grande and i numerous and facts so few that it ,d f , f , |f , . cago's new chief of police, following ly 2.6000.000.00i) was spent for ar
below the Isthmus. ls almost imposs ble to tell with any | pr0;10° rUB1 r°r a, aozen | closely on the trail of the gamblers tides legally — "
to tell
Mexico Mocks Toast. degree of accuracy just what hap- Icent ngs. prooucnon irom anotner | and Bunmen, and Judge Kenesaw Jl.
So. above the candles and the roses Pon«l when the republican national fallow wel oily L ndls after the bootleggers, the out-
and the gleaming silver and cut committeeman was shot. Only these [deep was being hold up pending ar- , look WBS„.t bright forth
glass, amid the cioiHs of smoke from .Pertinent facts fitand out.
You have read the appeal, entitled that case they wlll be giad to glve rr rant Havanaa and above the; Hiimon was
- the details of their own process, in LIink 0, steel and silver upon rare ! wounded. A
country, at an approximate cost j ~ ashed
"The Slaughter of the Innocents
and printed in newspapers all over
the
of $
from Herbert Hoover, saying
come to you again," and concludes, ;
"In the name of Him who said 'Feed
my lambs.' "
Thousands of Americans are giv-
ing of their last few dollars to this
fund. They believe the money will (
be spent outright to buy bread for
famished children. Will it be spent j
in that way? Or will it merely go
on deposit in New York banks and
remain there?
Attached to the printed appeal is
the following pledge: "Every remit-
tance will be acknowledged, and the
Literary Digest will be responsible
for every dollar contributed, to see
de-
I c
the interest of a possible quicker re-1 ])orceln|ni th
shot and
rarrant
rival of storage tanks.
seriously1 Ranchers and operators are set-
isBued ting up water well drills by the doz-
laased as luxuries, be-
iiuse of a buyers' war tax which
must be paid on them at the time of
purchase.
criminal;
More than 3 ,< 00 men have been
taken within the last five days in
iftOI STO.N, Texasr—.Hrs. Alum
Itemler wants a Ford ami her
freedom from friend husband.
lit a plea for divorce she re-
cites the couple onus a Ford and
she demands in addition to u
separation, the Ford as her com-
munity property share.
KANSAS t i I V, Mo Law
must govern lute if love is t< ,
succeed. So ruled Judge
Thomas llurkncr in an informal
decision handed down toduy ill
the matter of hasty marriage,
lie had just granted a woman a
divorce who had wed on two.
days* acquaintance.
The next legislature should
take up the question of such
marriages, the judge said. "It
should pais a Ian fkintr the time
for courtship. People should he-
come acquainted with each other
before entering Into the solemn
obligations of matrimony. In
trying divorce cases. I have
found that hasty marriage is at
the bottom of the most of them.
"The legislature also should
pass a law prohibiting divorcees
from wedding again until after
a certain time.**
FLORIDA, Mo,—Fritz Kreisler
and Jan habelik notice:
Monroe county, Missouri, fid-
dlers will hold a championship
fiddling contest here November
The contest Is open to all
old-time fiddlers and will In* a
catch-as-catch-can affair.
"Turkey in the Straw," "\r-
kansas Traveler," and other pio-
neer tunes will constitute the
interesting program.
The winner will receive a cer-
tificate announcing that the
holder Is the champion fiddler
of Monroe county. A onne made
from the timbers of the house
in which Mark Twain was born
will also be part of the victor's
1 spoils.
ANTI-BOLSHEVIK ARMY
IS CAUGHT IN "BOGS"
for,
mber
20 announces I hat a grand total
of only $2( 7?i7l.71 has been re-
ceived. That sum is barely
enough to pay the newspapers
which have carried the adver-
tisements. It illustrates how re-
luctant the public has become
to respond even to the most
worthy philanthropic appeal. It
emphasizes the urgent need for a
clean breast of all details before
the public will respond und stop
"The Slaughter of the Inno-
cents," no matter how imminent
or how graphically set forth In
print.
Very few of the post-war relief
agencies have made anything like a
And another warrant was issued mill
(charging the couple with a statutory1 Both the wells drilled are on the
(offense. | W. W. Turner ranch, fourteen miles
Ilamon's friends continue to Insist 1 northwest of here. Hundreds of
,m three snecters hover charging Clara Smith-Hamon with ens to bore for oil. Mnny plan to , th„ .,olu,e (|r, a.ainst gamblers
I displaying their dim features and [to kill. Pump the "black gold" with wind uni| rrinl,llals. Squn„g
I their wounds to Colby and to the
ambassadors and ministers who of
fer this formal courtesy to the sec-
Ih?7enTerBtof^heAngroupXieMe\0ico'j^e_wh01e affair outside the actual |scouts and operators have flocked
| loyally supported by every *l«itln
American, mocks the toastn that are j
'''pesujulera? humiliated°and* wearied . PETITION ASKS FIRM
.... 1 m Thr Although 1 ounty Attorney Brown oroi iditico dp un n
by his task, may soon; go home The refuse to reveal what SECURITIES BE HELD
three specters will sail with ( olby on
FRHNF1I PRKMIKIt TO LONDON.
PARIS, Nov. 25. Premier Ley- MOSCOW, Nov. 25.— (By Wireless.)
gues today started for Ixmdon,; An official statement issued hero
where he will confer with Premier j today announced that the troops of
through the bad lands of the west-!"oyd George with "fart to th. General Balakovltch. anti-bolshevik
side, the "black belt" of the south Frenc h-British policy toward recog-1 leader-
side, and intoube rendezvous of the "ling, a Greek Kovem.nent headed Polyesl. ■
last night '>> King < onstantine. | band of ted troops.
were "stuck in the bogs" of
surrounded by an iron
'shooting is due to politics, pointing to the field since the first w
, out that his political enemies are as brought in.
i bitter against him as his friends ar
the battleship Florida.
HARDING TO FEAST ON
TURKEY WITH HEAD OF
PANAMA CANAL ZONE
Although County Attorney Brown
continues to refuse to reveal what
evidence he has against Clara Smith- ,
Hamon, if any, and would only say j MUSKOGEE, Nov.
that "as prosecuting official of this filed here yesterday
camorra. in "little hell"
and early today picking up all
gamblers and suspected criminals.
Most Dives Crowded.
Tho dives were crowded in most
instances, due to the coming holiday
and large hauls were made. Scores
1 were arrested. As none of the courts
. A petition were open today, those arrested faced
sks the fed-, remaining in jail until Friday.
Compulsory War Service
And Automatic Draft Are
Pro vided In NewKahn Bill
ounty, I realize such charges must I eral court to make permanent the or- In federal
he supported. 1 would not file them j ('er restraining the sale of tii«- Kali- leggeriKwere bail
If I did not have something to pro- i Inla coal company's securities, until bar, preparations
ceed on." \ the United States supreme court I rush the work of
, attention to the Gatun locks.
that it goes, without one penny v. o _
ducted, to the purpose for which it complete accounting to their contrib-
is given.'J ; utors. The Society of Friends
Will Milieus Be Held? (Qaukers) are conspicuous excep-
On the basis of statements by per- 1 lions to this unpleasant rule.
sons who have been assoicated with ! In view of the fervid exhortation
similar relief appeals in the past, the I in behalf of destitute Europe, atten- of KOif as a Thanksgiving day re-,
following questions are now raised: tion has been called to the official : creation. It was probably the warm-
Is It not intended that the $23.- I announcement by the Bed Cross at | (i;;t Thanksgiving day the presldent-
0OP.000 asked for shall be held in a Washington. November 19, that 70 | ejert has experienced.
few American banks as the basis ol tons of food, clothing and medicines , Senator Harding yesterday in-
"credlts" to governments of the lands i were put to the torch in the Crimea ; spP( ted the ( anal, paying particular
in need of charity? [ on November 13.
Will not the governments in ques- Home two weeks earlier the
Bed Cross at Washington as-
sured the Federated Pres«< that II
was anxious to carry relief into
soviet Bnssfn. Its later an-
nouncement saj s that the 700
tons of supplies were burned up
to keep the pe nle of soviet
Russia from getting them after
Baron Wrangel's army was
beaten. In the printed appeal
on behalf of the "Innocents*
sol vet Russia is evpliclteh omit-
ted from the lands *\h >r<> jf js in-
tended to rescue children from
starvation.
As to the assertion by Hamon sup- parses on the $600,000 awarded th
BALBOA, Canal Zofte, Nov. 2r .— [porters that political animosity is j company against the United Mine
President-elect Harding of the United , back of the charges, the county at- Workers. The petition was filed by
States, wilU eat Thanksgiving din- torney said: j H. Denman, of Clarksville, Ark.,
ourt where the boot
being brought to th<
were made ti
cleaning out tin
Julius
illicit liquor traffic in the city
The trial of the thirty Indicted on
charges of conspiracy to bring $200.-
, . ....... — 000 worth of liquor to Chicago, will
onight with President Porras of ; "j am doing my duty as I see it. j J. B. Hilling, of McAlester, both of j start in December before Judge
•abarets against
were issued by-
abatement clause
Panama in the presidential palace, iThere is no politics in this so far as j whom have an Interest in the com
ptor Harding enjoyed a game j ani concerned." pany.
tion give their notes, for varying
periods up to say. two years, which 1
notes will be held by the American
banks before the relief stores are
shipped forward from this country '
Are the bar4cs not using at present,
and will they not continue to use, j
these funds in the same commercial,
profit-making manner that they use
all other deposits?
As the {oreign governments pay oi l
their notes does there not accumu-
late in the American banks a sum of i
money equal to the original relief
fund—in this instance, $23,000,000" I
Landis. Eight
which injunctions
Landis under the
of the Volstead :
morrow. Suits to
others will also c(
tomorrow.
golons V
Arrangements v
mass meeting of <
GROWERS OF KENDRICK 6.000.000 GERMANS
MAY ASK COMMISSION VENEREAL VICTIMS
TO LOWER GIN COSTS
BERX.IN, Nov. 25.—(By C. P.)
KENDBICK, Nov. 25.—Farmers of ■ Six million persons, or bne out of
cdcmpu qtfirc qai cc t,ltK fiCCtion threaten i<> bring the [every ten inhabitants in Germany,
rnblMUH olUnt oALto matter of high ginning prices before are afflicted with social disease, ac- members
TO GO TO GOVERNMENT the corporation commission, which cording to scientific calculations. Ef- judges am
set the price of ginning at 10 cents forts are being made to increase the ♦ nforcenn i
PARIS Nov France does no' per hundred pounds wehn there were present laws so as to guard against legislation
I know about America's ThanksKlvlnu prospects of coqjl cotton prices. spread of this plavue Anion; i
(day but this republic had a celebra- r'ie>' eontend that at the present In some communities, the law re- Chief l it/.
tion of its own today which probably ! Price they have to pay for ginning, quires the registration of ail per-
! (aused a lot of shoppers as well as j they cannot r asu a penny. GInners sons so diseased; and it is possible
' the finance ministers of the country declare that they cannot gin cotton that reformers will undertake* to
to give thanks. for less than 40 cents per hundred, make this a national law Likewise
All the stores o£ Paris staged spe- They say that there ha been no re- efforts are being made to alter the
cial sales, with the announcement duction in bagging or ties and they present practice whereby
that the proceeds of the sales would are paying the same wages as they I is bound to secrecy as to
to the nation I did last year. affliction with social disease.
ct, will do
to-
en ty
the state
others inte
to discuss
legislature
rested in law
WASHINGTON. Nov
Kahn, republican congressman, Cali-
fornia, who, as chairman of the
house committee on military affairs,
i championed the draft act of 1917.
announces tho completion of his new
bill for compulsory military training
and an automatic conscription law,
which would become effective imme-
diately upon declaration of war.
These two outstanding features
of tin- bill, which is to be discussed
by the military affairs committee year.
next week and an effort made to V similar bill, presented by the
havt n passed in the next congress, military affairs committee and en-
recommi Idorsed by Secretary of War Baker,
i compulsory military service for was killed in tbe lasi session of con-
all able-bodied American young men gress by both republicans aud deni«
have reached the age of ocrats. It i doubtful if the coming
of the army reorganization act "so
that immediately upon declaration «-f
war by congress all male Americans
would be amenable to selective con-
scription."
It will be recalled that congress-
man Mondell, republican floor lead-
r, protested at the last session of
congress that the system of compute
sol y trainlti- proposed by Kahn
would cost the nation In the nelgh-
boihood of one billion dollars a
am-
ong
will undertak
tempt
ss new proposed
riminal.
laws favored by
tzmorris to punish by life
ment anyone convicted
bbery with a gun.
zini. the famous singe
sele
s that H is her unlucky
physician and that in traveling she u
Is clients'j careful to avoid berths <
rooms with that number.
Aut
11 American rr
of 1« and 45 y
iw that tho "w
fat- has been fought and
the chairman of th
affairs committee s
\ de- Halted States car
nber, youths every year
ys is be incalculably ad
hotel matter of militar
ything so
he great natioanl
iticipated annual
billion dollars for
veen the deficit and th" a:
expenditure of fiHe
id wars" years to come.
at peace. If any considerable support for
military Kahn s bill should develop in con-
It' th' gress it will be taken to indicate that
".ih'i.oom when the hour strikes to invade and
tion will conquer Mexico the next administra-
taged in the tion means to have every adult male
natically available for uae ia
'His othe
estion is the amending I that enterprise.
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