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prepared to sacrifice every thing for
freedom.—Terence MacSw iney
Oklahoma Leader
FIRST EDITION
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Olvl.AllOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1920
PRICE, THREE CENTS
D'ANNUNZIO THREATENS TO BURN F1UME
Ai. .PAMiii m ill TA DAD All AUEiiSinM
CALIFORNIA PLANS TO
OPEN SHOP
Kills Self to Continue
Search for Husband's
Spirit.
Employers' Plan Condemned
as Method of Coercion
Against Union Men.
NEW YORK. Dec. 28.—The open
shop drive was branded as an at-
tempt to destroy the organized labor
movement in a statement issued by
the commission of the church and
solcal service of the federal council
of the churches of Christ in Amer-
ica
tvr oJtvri A i/fC.
LEGISLATURE TO GET BILL ON
FOREIGNERS HOLDING LANDS
T. L. Chadbourne May
Head Democratic Na-
tional Committee.
Oil Holdings in State Arouse
Natives to Take Drastic
Action to Hold for the
American People Valuable
Assets, Leaders of Move-
ment Declare.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 28—(By U.
p.)—Sweeping legislation which may j
go so fur as to extend the present
anti-alien land law of t alifornia j
whereby Japanese are forbidden'
from holding land in this state, so
as to affect all aliens instead of Ori- i
entals, is being planned for intro-!
ductlon at the biennial session of the
state legislature which will open i
Tuesday at Sacramento, it w as j
learned' today.
Chief points for the anti-alien pro-
gram planned for introduction in the j
Bl
Representative K a h n An-
nounces He Has Called a
Meeting of California Leg-
islature to Discuss Meas-
ures to Bar Aliens From
State.
OF JO SALOONS-
Warrants Issued Secretly by
Judge Landis to Prevent
"Tip Off" Possibility.
The statement calls upon Christian
employers to beware of any move-
ment "that has for its purpose the j
limitation of the lawful right of ,
workers.
The statement follows:
"The relations between employers i ... ,
• n.i workers throughout the United ' Mrs. John A. Lee, widow 01 *— ,
States are seriously affected at this prominent Brooklyn physician and S legislature prominent American-Jap-
moment by a campaign which is X-ray specialist, who, it is believed. ] anese leaders indicated, will be:
betas conducted for the 'open shop' | committed suicide on Long Beach. Amendment to the present Call
• latter failing to communicate with i fornia law forbidding Japanese hold-
' lier husband's spirit. Extreme mel- ing land by title, lease, through cor-
ancholy over the death of Dr. Lee 1 porations or by guardianship so as to
about six months ago. which led her strengthen it against attacks by
into spiritualism in efforts to com- courts. ""Y
municate with her dead husband's | Passage of a measure which will
spirit, was advanced by friends as facilitate searching investigations to
probably the reason for suicide. determine whether land
| held in good faith or by
representing Japanese.
i Should the plan be carried into
i execution, large interests might be
I affected. Dutch and British com-
I panics hold valuable oil interests in
this state while there are extensive
i holdings centered in other foreign
Officer Suffers Pneumonia in! sources. t>f tate there has been
policy— the so-called 'American plan'
of employment.
Open Shop Is Closed.
"These-terms are now being fre-
quently used to designate establish-
ments that are definitely anti-union.
Obviously, a shop of this kind is not
an 'open shop* but a closed shop,
closed against members of labor
unions.
"We feel impelled to call public
attention to the fact that a very
widespread impression exists that
the present 'open shop' campaign is |
inspired in many quarters by this j
antagonism to union labor.
"Many disinterested persons
titles are
dummies'
JOE CAMPBELL
NOT IMPROVED
convinced that an attempt is beins
made to destroy the organized labor !
movement. Any such attempt must
be viewed with apprehension by fair I
minded people.
Kinplojcrs Are Coercive.
"When, for example, an applicant
for work is compelled to sign a con-
tract pledging himself against af-
filiation with a union, or when
a union man is refused employment
or discharged, merely on the ground
of union membership, the employer is
using coercive methods and is violat-
ing the fundamental principle of an
open shop.
"Such action is unfair to economic
freedom and to the interest of so-
ciety, as is corresponding coercion
exercised by labor, bodies in behalf
of the closed shop.
Christian Bosses' Duty*
"It seems incumbent upon Chris-
tian employers to scrutinize care-
fully any movement, however plaus-
ible", which is likely to result in de-
nying to the workers such affiliation
as will in their judgment best safe-
guard their interests and promote
their welfare, and to precipitate dis-
astrous industrial conflicts at a time
when the country needs good will
and co-operation between employers
and employes."
Addition to Serious
Injury.
In spite of the fact that Joe Camp-
bell, mounted police lieutenant, shot
Sunday night by J. A. Carrol, negro,
has been resting easily at the Uni-
versity hospital since early Tuesday
morning, attending nurses stated
that his condition was not much im-
proved. Pneumonia developed late
Monday, in addition to the agony
of the bullet, which has not yet been
removed. Physicians declare that
Campbell's condition is too serious
to permit an operation.
Justice A. W. McWilliams, coroner j
in the inquest of the death of the j
negro, exonerated W. A. Lucas, j
police detective, who admitted hav-
ing fired the shot that caused the
negro's death. Lucas testified at the (
inquest that he had fired the shot
much agitation against holding of oil
properties by non-Ainericans and
particularly against extension of
such holdings.
Reports from Washington yester-
day that Japan had withdrawn her
protest against the anti-Japanese
legislation apparently failed to alter
the intentions of the anti-Japanese
leaders to drive their «program
through the legislature.
The movement against Japanese
owning land in this country has
spread and reports hero show that
anti-Japanese legislation may be ex-
pected in Oregon, Washington, Texas
and possibly other western states,
patterned on the California program.
REPORT CARPENTERS
OF ENID HAD PAY CUT
VIGOROUSLY DENIED
One Baltimore Divine Says if
Heaven's Democratic He
Doesn't Want It.
BY PAUL HANNA.
Federated Pre mi Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Bee. 2V -*lf
Heaven Is democratic I don't
want it," says Rev. Harris K.
Kirk, pastor of the Franklin
Street Presbyterian church,
Baltimore.
"So many of us/* sajs Br.
Kirk, "have the most foolish idea
that somehow the kingdom of
God is identified with democ-
racy. 1 doubt whether I would
want the kingdom so much If it
were founded on the so-called
democratic idea.
"Others Identify the kingdom
of God with the reform move-
ment,w the eminent divine con-
tinued. "Our business is to re-
generate, not reform. This does
not mean that I am against re-
form, but the church is not the
place for it."
Another Baltimore minister.
Dr. S. A. Steel, writing in the
Baltimore Southern Methodist,
advises Attorney General Palmer
and all others concerned that
the way to still unrest In \meri-
ca is for private citizens to or-
ganize and hang or shoot the
discontented without bothering
with the law.
Dr. Steel writes:
"We need the Ku Klux Klan now,
a secret order, pledged to preserve
our American civilization in these
chaotic times. A parade of such an
order, in the old ghostly para-
phernalia of the Klan. at our fairs
and on civic occasions, would not
only be a star attraction for the pro-
gram, but have a very quieting ef-
fect on any spirit of lawlessness that
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—(By U.
p.)—The report that Japan had
withdrawn opposition to the Cull- n«j<.nt
lornia anti-Japanese land law took>ff6r
a new turn today when Represen-
tative Kahn announced he had called
a meeting of the bouse California
delegation to consider wlding the
law to prohibit land holding by all
foreigners.
The meeting will be held tomor-
row, according to Kahn. who is rank-
ing member of the California dele-
gation. , . , . ,
The meeting is considered highly
significant iu the light of these two
points:
1. Application of the present anti-
gen land law to all foreigners
would automatically nullify the pro-
test of Japan against the measure
as discriminatory to Japanese even
if Japan continued her opposition.
2. Widening of the law would act
as a check against the large British
oil holdings in California. It was In-
timated in one authoritative quarter
that the reason for Japan's reported
withdrawal of her protest against
the law was because Great Britain
was worried over the future of her
California oil interests.
Pressure could have been exerted
by Great Britain upon Japan to with-
draw her protest.
Kahn has decided to recommend
to the California delegation exten-
sion of the land law. If the other
members of the delegation approve
such step, the recommendation will
be made to the California legislature.
California representatives in con-
gress are thoroughly aroused over
the question of foreign land holding,
as precipitated by the Japanese is-
sue. They declare It is the inherent
right of California to protect her rich
oil and timber lands and mines.
Emphasizing the necessity of such
action, they point out that Japan
prohibits the holding of land by
foreigners and that Japanese born
in this country maintain their alle-
giance to the mikado.
However, widening the law might
tend to weaken the demand of the
United States for an absolute ex-
clusion of Japanese immigration. In
the negotiations, Japan,
was
might be brooding around. Bol
— Ishevism will give the road to the j understood, was in effect to be com-
3NID, Dec. 28.—A report recently j Klan just as certainly as Carpetbag- j pensated for agreeing to amendments
when he came upon the negro in a published that Enid carpenters had j jsm dirt sixty years ago.
rooming house. The negro had
gun in his hand and rose to shoot
when Lucas came in the room, it
was said.
llOII-l.lt EXPLOSION FATAL.
OTTAWA. Kan., Dec. 28.—Mrs.
Alice Gilmore is dead and two other
persons injured by a boiler explos-
ion yesterday at the Star laundry.
agreed to a wage reduction from ?8 : No I. W. W. would prosper in the
to $7 a day, was branded as false by neighborhood of the Ku Klux Klan
George W. Howard, of the carpeu- Ljen. If 1 had any voice in the mat-
ters' local here in a statement. Ac- , (cr j would limit membership in the
cording to Howard, no such idea has
ever entered the minds of the men.
It is believed that the reports were
circulated by some of the open shop-
pers. The $8 scale still prevails
here.
Two Men Shot in Fighting
and Number of Stores
Are Robbed.
OILTON, Dec. 28.—Rioting be-
tween hi-jackers and officers, by an
orgy of crime in which stores and
pedestrians openly were robbed,
broke out here recently. Two were
shot in the fighting, according to a
report received at police headquar-
ters and the sheriff's office here.
At the time of the receipt of the
report, which was in the form of a
telephone message from deputy sher-
iff Jolliff. the high-handed methods
of the law violators had been tem-
porarily chccked, after the shooting
of one of their number by the officer.
Deputy Sheriff Jolliff. by the time
of theii arrival, had the situation
well in hand, and had plAce "Blue"
George, who bad been shot in the
loot, and one Ryan under arrest.
"The fronts of two hardware
stores and one drug store had been
kicked in," llndersberifl Childress
said, "and one man held up. They
must have been hunting for shells
KANSAS FARMERS, READY
TO FIGHT ALLEN'S COURT,
IN CONVENTION TUESDAY
hardly sell our crops for enough to
: pay taxes and interest on what we
' owe the banks."
BY EDMUND L. HAWES.
Special Leader Correspondent.
GIRARD. Kan.. Dec. 28.—Unless
all signs fail, the farmers union i Qnc farmer who owns a forty-acre,
mating scheduled here today will | place at Fort scott said: "Figured I onTT...
up my earnings on the farm this j WILL UNITE CO I I UN
Klan to pure Americans. And I
mean by Americans the people of
the Anglo-Saxon or white race. I
say it is time for us to stand to-
gether if we are to save our ideals
from being destroyed in the 'Melting
Pot.' as the enthusiasts call our
country.
"The degree of heat necessary to
melt some of the materials we have
in the pot is liable to melt the pot
! itself. Whether this Ku Klux Klan
I redivivus is a mere freak of the his-
I toric imagination, or a real revival
of an old order, it represents a thing
to be desired."
Attorney General Palmer has not
displayed any interest in this print-
ed advocacy of mob violence by the
distinguished churchman.
week and found that
present
bring forth some interesting
velopments as to the attitude of |
Kansas farmers towards the cour
industrial relations. ( raw ford '•pun-I will not average 10 cents a day.
farmers, as well ;ts those! of i ^ave 400 bushels of A No. 1 kafflr
C herokee and adjoining counties will | corn an(1 450 bnshela of corn an<1 1
i cannot sell a pound of either with-
out taking a loss of 50 percent on
mrLgfj prices my earnings for the season
1 cjron- w
of south Kansas opinion which may
startle the equanimity of Henry J.
Allen and his friends at Topeka.
From private expressions the farm-
ers are growing more and more dis-
appointed in the operation of the in-
dustrial court. More and more open-
ly are they expressing the opinion
that the court seems to function
more for the good of the corpora-
tions and utilities than for the gen-
eral public.
Farmers Are Sore.
Some of the farmers are sore be-
cause of the soaring of freight and
passenger rates while corn, wheat,
beef, pork, kaffir, corn, hides and
practically everything that the farm
constantly low-
Others complain that it is a case
GROWERS IN LOVE CO.
to the "gentlemen's agreement" pro-
viding for an airtight exclusion, by
a treaty guaranteeing land rights to
Japanese already in the United
States.
Report that Japan had withdrawn
her objections to the California law
was again reported in authoritative
quarters as having come from the
state department. Whether such no-
tification was given the state depart-
ment by Japan in writing ?3 not
known, but it is understood that the
reported action of the mikado's gov-
ernment will result in the proposed
treaty to guarantee land rights to
Japan being "scrapped."
Members of congress from Cali-
fornia intend to continue their light
for absolute exclusion of Japanese
immigration. Kahn said it was his
understanding that the state depart-
ment will continue negotiations with
Ambassador Shidehara to bring this
about, but any agreement reached
requiring approval of the senate may
be postponed until the Harding ad-
ministration comes into office.
NINE HORSES AND MULES
BURN TO DEATH IN OILTON
HURLEY. Wis., Dec. 28. The sec-
ond invasion of the "bad lands" of
Hie northwood country by federal
ts to create a wholesome respect
national prohibition was in
progress today.
Seventy-five agents who slipped
out of Chicago last night were ex-
pected to arrive here during the
morning to serve federal warrants
on two score saloonkeepers and
other alleged violators of the prohi-1
bition law.
Warrants for the arrest of the
men were issued secretly last week
by Judge K. M. Landis at Lacrosse.
Wis. At the request of District Pro-
hibition Officer Richardson, Judge
Landis went to the district court at
Lacrosse and issued the warrants
personally to assure that there
would be no "tip off."
Kvcn Dry Agents Didn't Know.
Not even the prohibition enforce-
ment officers of the Lacrosse terri-
tory knew of the issuance of the
warrants.
Hurley has long been the thorn in
the side of the prohibition enforce-
ment officers of the Great Lakes
district. Leo Grove. In charge of the
enforcement of the law in the north-
ern Michigan peninsula, recently led
an attack on alleged whisky runners
in which one of the men alleged to
have been transporting booze was
killed. Extradition proceedings to
bring several of the federal agents
to Wisconsin for trial on charges of
murder are now in progress before
Governor Sleeper, of Michigan.
70 Saloons Yi Ide Open.
There are approximately seventy
saloons here and federal agents d>
clare that practically all have been
running "wide open."
Threats were alleged to have been
sent to federal agents that if they
ever attempted to "clean up the
town, thy would meet with resist-
ance.
Before issuance of the warrants by
Judge Landis, several federal opera-
tives came here last week and ob-
tained evidence that many places
were selling liquor.
Deputy J. H. Hannah was in
charge of the agents who left Chi-
cago last night. All of the prohibi-
tion enforcement officers of the cen-
tral district were gathered for the
"invasion." As the train creaked
across the frozen rails through the
north country last night, additional
agents were added to the party at
Ck
/+frc
According to reports from Wash-
ington many democrats of promi-
nence are urging the reorganization
of tho democratic national commit-
tee with Thomas L. Chadbourne,
prominent New York lawyer, as
chairman. Mr. chadbourne was vice
chairman of the war labor board
during the war and has been long
active in democratic affairs.
HITCHCOCK
IDEA DITCHED
IE!
OF REM
BUTTLE UN Clllf
Poet's Forces Fall Back to
Center—Italians Pay With
Lives for Advance.
ROME, Dec. 28.—(By U. P.)—Land
and sea operations developed rapidly
around Flume today. With con-
stantly increasing pressure, regular
forces crept toward the heart of the
city.
Thirty regulars have been killed
and 150 wounded in the sniping,
bombing and mining defense of
d'Annunzio troops which have fallon
back to the center of the city. The
handsome stone bridges, once a fea-
ture of the port's architecture, have
been wrecked as tho troops drew
back. Every approach to headquar-
tc rs has been mined. Orders were
Issued that no buildings were to bo
spared if their destruction would
hamper the regulars.
It was denied officially today that
d'Annunzio has been wounded. Reg-
ulars have been instructed to with-
hold fire until compelled to shoot in
older to continue the advance.
Naval Blockade Tightens.
The naval blockade tightened with
that of the land forces but it was
denied "there had been any bombard-
ment of the port by heavy naval
guns.
D'Annunzio was reported to-
day to have declared he will de-
stroy the city rather than sub-
mit to the regular arm). V se-
ries of his proclamation reached
a climax with an impassioned
appeal in which he demanded
the support of the Italian peo-
ple. Copies of the_
Senator Attacks Emergency
Farm Tariff Measure
as Embargo.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28- By a vote
of 3:1 to 12, the senate today tabled
the motion of Senator Hitchcock to
refer the emergency tariff bill to
the senate commerce committee in-
stead of the finance committee.
Senator Hitchcock today opened
the democratic fight on the emer-
gency tariff bill in the senate by
moving that it be referred to the
commerce committee instead of the
finance committee.
Hitchcock declared the bill was an
embargo measure and not a revenue
act and that it therefore should go
to tho commerce committee, having
charge of matters pertaining to
foreign commerce.
He warned the senate against put-
ting up a wall now against foreign
imports, predicting that other nations
would retaliate in kind.
Instead of helping American busi-
ness, an embargo now would ruin It
by preventing foreign business men
from paying for goods bought here
in the only way they now can pay
every Important stop.
A year ago A. V. Dalrymple, who 1 jor tjien, through
was then in charge of prohibition ,
own goods, he said,
enforcement in this district, went to |
Iron River, Michigan, with a small CQDGFTTING SECOND
army of deputies in an attempt tolrunuui nmw ouu
clean up that village.
TEACHERS' CONFERENCE
WILL BE HELD JAN. 6TH
EDMOND, Okla., Dec. 28.— The
date for the teachers' conference, j w(j|Ch they lived
STAIR, THREE DIE IN FIRE
WICHITA. Kan., Dec. 28.—Three
members of the family of G. St.
Mitchell are dead in a fire here be-
cause they failed to remember a sec- i
ond stairway In the building in
document
...re found among the adduc-
ing force* but officers denied
their men had been affected by
the propaguuda.
D'Annunzio's wide experience dur
ing the great war was exaraplilled
at Flume In the construction of iba
city's defenses. The mines, destroy-
ing roads and bridges and Impedins
the progress to the regulars, tho
barbed wire entanglements, the
nests of the machine guns and Ihe
location of snipers in steeples wire
planned from his observations over
the Italian and enemy lines.
Flume u Fortress.
Flume was more of a fortress than
n residential city. Its citizens were
beginning to feel the blockade and
the wreckage in Ihe city streets
added to their demoralization.
The poet was said to have slip-
pressed ruthlessly any attempt of
citizens to oppose his program. That
the commandant was contending
with opposition in the camp was
shown by a rumor that Mayor Gig-
ante sought a parley with Gen.ml
Cavigila, commanding the regulars.
Theo. Belastcb. former councilman
of Flume, was reported to have is-
raped from prison and tied to Abaila
where he declared the legionnaires
treating
xportB of their _uered municipality, with no regard
' whatever for the rights of its peo-
D'Annunzlo's decree militarising
all the employes met with resistance,
he said, and 160 leaders were ar-
rested. , . *
Similar reports were brought out
by former Mayor Zanella, who watt
downcast over the city's plight.
which will bo held at the Central
State Normal school for two days
has been set for January 6. Educa
tors from all over the state wll
When fire broke out early cbrist-
| mas morning, the family was asleep.
The father aroused the other five
i members. Believing all exists cut off
HICKASHA, Dec.
actual cost. I am offered $1 per 100
for kaffir corn after I have hauled
it fourteen miles into Fort Scott and
corn that cost me $1.60 a bushel for
seed is a drug on the market at 40
cents a bushel after I have hauled it
to town.
"I hauled a thirty-eight-pound
2-year-old green hide to town and
the best I could get for it was $2.10.
Yet when I go to buy shoes, or
tanned leather. I have to pay at the
rate of $2 a pound. The bank at
Fort Scott or Girard won't lend me
$50 even if 1 offer all my crop for
security, yet when 1 went to ship
a carload of coal a distance of two
miles the freight cost was $51, or
more than my profit on the car. This
28.--The shcr-
gallons
MARIETTA. Dec. 28.—On Janu-
ary 7, a campaign will be started for
the purpose of organizing all cotton
growers in Love county as members
of the Oklahoma [the HarrteHvery ^| oV jorn whisky in an automobile
been caused by a "
gas stove in the rear of the barn.
Nine horses and mules were burned t ^^ady county jail. He pleaded
to death, and nine were saved, bev- I *
eral sets of harness and other sup- 1 "ol
plies were also lost. The loss was
partly covered by $2,000 insurance.
meet here. A series of lectures by j tlie head of the house leaped from
Dr Charles A. McMurray, of Pea- . tho window on the third floor and
body college. Nashville. Tenn., v.ill toj(1 his wife to drop the three
bo the feature. Education since the younger children on him as he lay
war will be a popular topic under | near the wall. She did. Then she
discussion. jumped and broke his back. The
father, wife and youngest son died
CHICKASHA OFFICER I from their injuries. Claude, another
Regulars Not Occupying
Fiume, Giolitti Declares
LONDON, Dec. 28.— (By I". P.)—
A Central news dispatch from Home
today quoted Premier Giolitti as
saying to newspaper men: "There
is reason to believe regular troops
are occupying Flume."
CANDY WRAPPERS
LEAD TO SUSPECTS
DISCOVERS 9 GALLONS I™:"hTnnod
ind stair-
mem-
bers of the family jumping
association.
ageut, will be in charge of the work.
lor their pistols, as these were scat-
tered over the floor of the ^ard^''J"® produces are goln^
stores which had been entered. Both |1
men were drunk."
The two hardware stores wnicn i r* "«itli the" aericulturist "and the 1 was because 1 had to sell the car for
had been forced were Peck's "" ^n forces «em "o be taking no what I could get when the bank
Hermans. Officers ■r^'1nd,®al j cognizance of the farmers- right to|w°"l'lnt raone>-
« th«rn In iail The demand a readjustment. I "That is the way it goes. The Allen
M-dit and lod^e 1 ■ j* • j "\vhy should the railroads and I administration says the industrial
!f(JUri?mLnk 1(1 lustice MeDon- telephone companies and nhtural gas j court protects our interests from
,1,1s cour? 'companies be allowed increases in 1 both labor and capital. From all I
The two men
"tatedar8eS °f ^Ur"l< ' Ismail loan to enable him to hold his! "Even the big former gets no con-
produce and prevent selling them at j hi(jeration j happened to be at
K. HEATHER ('01.B. ; n absolute loss." is the way the Qjrarfj week when a substantial
KANSAS CITY, Mo.. Dec. 28.— j Crawford county farmer views th'* tarmei* entered a bank of the town.
Temperatures here dropped to eight I situation. Hp wanted to get $u to finish paying
decrees early today. Kansas City Taxes Gone I p -0 Percent. his taxes on a place He told the
weathered yesterday's cold without ,i "Our taxes have yonc up 20 per- banker that his tax bill came to $220
gas shortage—something unuauul cent to pay the debts which the in ,
y,cre> | dust rial court piles up and we can | (Continued on Page lour.)
to Justice McDon- telephone companies and natural gas ] court protects our
t ompanies be allowed increases in both labor and car
will probably beheld rates when the banks wouldn't even j can see it protects capital and tells
burglary the officers carry a farmer for thirty days on a j labor and the farmer to go hang.
SOONER GOES TO OXFOKB.
STIGLER. Okla., Dec. 28.—Wilbur
Holleman of this city, a law gradu-
ate of the University of Oklahoma,
left yesterday ior Oxford. England,
where he will take a course in law.
Mr. Holleman recently won a Rhodes
scholarship.
GALLl-CURCI WILL
WED AMERICAN
CHICAGO, Dec. 28.—"I «i>h
to start the New Tear right and
so I am going to marry a very
tine American young man.**
This was the cheerful an-
nouncement of Mme. Amelita
Lalli-t urcif the eelebruted color-
atura soprano, here today.
>1 me. Galll-Curci will marry
her accompanist. Homer Sam-
uels, "very soon** after the lir* t
of the vear. She will wait, she
said, until she obtains citizen-
ship papers, January B , she
said.
While the date is not settled,
she declared it was possible -he
would be married the same day.
She obtained a divorce a year
OILTON. Dec. 28.—A loss of $8,000
as inflicted here yesterday when ,ffr||*~m-~-d7si0vered nine gallons I SCIU TI K ItCIl llIM
. * . kJ firn i of corn whisky In an automobile, KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 2S.
smith shop were destroyed by fire. | Springs, it was reported Fire last night destroyed the Schutte
supposed to have been caused by_j ) tQday Ab a regult of th«> find. Bar- 1 ..tore and office building with csti-
Cogden was arrested and placed | mated loss of $80,000. Smoke and
' jj| ** ' freezing water badly hampered the
firemen.
CHICKASHA OPENS DRIVE
FOR FAIR GROUNDS FUNDS
CHICKASHA, Dec. 28.—A commit-
tee of Chickasha citizens lia^
launched a drive for funds with ■
which to build a fair grounds, I
, athletic park and an airplane land- j
ing field near the business district
here. The committee is composed I
of Orin Ashlon, chairman. Fred Frey, |
A. B. Leeds, D. C. Hybarger and Ed
Ij. Foster.
FORGER ADMITS GUILT
AND GETS THREE YEARS
I TULSA, Dec. 28. — Following a j
I plea of guilty to forgery. Clarence
Mapes was sentenced to serve three 1
years in the reformatory at Granite. '
I Sentence was imposed in the elistrict ,
| court by Judge Redmond S. Cole.
' Mapes admitted that be had forged a 1
check for $15 which he had passed I
I on to a Tiflsa firm. i
MARTENS ASKS TO TAKE TRADE
STAFF BACK TO SOVIET RUSSIA
Request Follows Chicherin's
Order Dissolving Bureau
and Canceling Contracts
With U. S. Business.
Special to Leader.
WASHINGTON, l ec. 2N.-I,nd-
wlg Martens, soviet represent*.
the to the I . S„ has requested j
the department of labor to allow >
him to return to Kussia inline- I
ilintel) with his famil> and staff |
a! his'own expense.
This re<|iiest nas made after |
instructions from Chicherin, '
commissar of foreign affairs, di-
recting Martens to dlssohe Ihe
trade bureau here and cancel all
contracts with Vmerican manu-
facturers. The message stated i
lhat .Martens had been ordered I
deported after two jears of hon-
orable and patient endeavor t"
brine about cordial relations be-
tween Kussia and America and
that it made it Impossible to deal
with Ihe present administration,
bat expressed hope that Un-
friendliness of the American
people, especially labor, would
bring about an understanding.
Dec
\ 1 n joith,
American labor alliance lor
trade with Kussia will hold a
giaal protest meeting Sundaj In
Madison Square Garden, to be
addressed hj William Johnston,
head of the machinists* anion,
1 raaU I*. Welsh, Joseph Sellloss-
berg and others who *111 launch
a campaign to rash a trade rela-
linos bill through congress eitii
the aid of Senator France and
friendly republicans.
MUSKOGEE. Dec. 28.- MuskogeO
and Delaware county officers fol-
lowed a peculiar trail to locate rna
THOYKD capture touts, touie and Alex Ptd-
on brothers, who arc charged with
burglarizing D. V. Gennctts general
Store at Copeland. Wrappers from
candy taken from tbe store were
thrown along the road by the rob-
bers, leaving a marked trail.
M'ALESTER LIGHT CO.
GETS RATE INCREASE
MCALESTER. Okla., Dec. 28.—The
local light company has bceu in-
foxmed that Its petition to the cor-
poration commission for a r a He in
rates of a half-cent per kilonat |)our'
has been granted. This .ollowa
closely a raise of 10 rents a thou-
! sand cubic feet to the local gas com-
I pany.
CHICAGO DISTRICT IN
GRIP OF COLD WEATHER
CHICAGO. Dec. 28.—The ther-
I mometer registered 8 below zero In
Chicago today, the first day of the
winter that it has gone below the
mttrker- , •
Reports from surrounding states
were that the cold wave was gen-
eral throughout the central west, it
followed a heavy snow.
i Weather bureau officials predicted
I that the wave had reached its pealc
and wanner weather would follow.
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