The Wapanucka Press (Wapanucka, Okla.), Vol. 23, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, December 7, 1923 Page: 2 of 8
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LARGE PROPERTY LOSS IS
REPORTED FROM WIND-'
SWEPT LOUISIANA
HEAVY RAINS WITH BAD STORM
Approximately Twenty-five Houset In-
cluding a $25000 School House
was Wrecked and Much Dam
afle Done to Crops
Ilourua La— Five persons lost their
lives five were Injured and heavy
property damage resulted front a
torn which swept the little Caillou
Bayou section 16 miles south of here
recently
The family ot Kalph Love was
wiped out Love his wile son 10 years
old daughter 12 years old having
been killed when their home was
wrecked The fifth death was that of
the daughter of a man named Burnet
who was drowned when a houseboat
In which the family made Its home
overturned The parents escaped
Approximately twenty-five houses
were wrecked including the $25000
Lacache school house Crops were
badly damaged by rain which accom-
panied the storqi the weather bureau
reporting ten and half Inches of rain-
fall in less than forty-eight hours
MAY REJECT PART OF PACT
Several of the Knottiest Problems
Have Already Been Settled
Ottawa Canada— Rejection by
Canada of some of the American pro-
posals to end liquor smuggling across
the border was indicated as delegates
to the International conference resum-
ed consideration of the remedies sug-
gested by representatives of the Unit-
ed States at the opening session
While six of the Ameilcaa sugges-
tions were disposed of by the confer-
ence according to an official com-
munique no intimation was given as
to whether they had been accepted
by the Canadian representatives Sec-
recy also was maintained regarding
Canada's general atfUude upon the
matters under discussion and counter-
proposals which the dominion dele-
gates were expected to advance
Several of the knottiest problems
involving changes in customs and ma-
rine regulations were among those
settled They provide for refusal of
clearance to ships laden with liquor
for United States ports and to all
ships under 250 tons with liquor car
goes search and seizure of vessels
engaged in smuggling on the Great
lakes obligation of vessels to pro-
ceed to ports for which they clear and
the furnishing of information by Cana-
dian officials concerning the clearance
of ships with liquor cargoes aboard
3 BANDITS GET BANK CASH
Unmasked Men Force Four To Lie on
Floor While They Loot Vault
Kansas City Mo— For the ‘second
time in two weeks the Independence
tvenue bank here was robbed when
three unmasked bandits forced four
persons to lie face down on the floor
and escaped with $5000 in currency
and 6ilver On November 14 four
bandits held up the bank and escaped
with $1500
The robbery trading was staged
while the special bandit squad from
police headquarters answered a fake
hold up call to another section of the
city A similar ruse was used in the
other robbery
GIRL IS THOUGHT FOUND
Mystery of Disappearance Still Un-
solved as Clues are Checked
Vancouver B C— The police of
Point Grey a subburb of this city re-
ported that they had found Miss Nell
Austin pretty 22 year old girl of
Hugo Okla a school teacher of Seat-
tle who dropped from sight recently
The girl believed by the Point Grey
police to be Miss Austin was found
near the waterfront of the surburb
Fhe was unconscious She was de-
scribed as pretty and having bobbed
hair
The girl was delirious in the general
hospital here To all words addressed
to her she responded: “Dally Oh
Daddy! Ikm't let them get me Daddy!
Ihtddy"
That Miss Austin formerly of Hugo
Okla who mysteriously vanished
while on her way from home to
church was not kidnaped but was
struck and fatally hurt by an automo-
bile is the theory advanced by police
Dog's Bite Saves Life of Woman
Dallas Texas— A bulldog probably
saved the life of Mrs Cavin Muse
wife of a local attorney recently Bit-
ing his mistress on the hand as she
lay asleep the dog aaakeued Mrs
Muse In time fdr her to escape the
burning home which a few minutt-a
later was a blazing ruin
Banker Won't Quote Mark Fice
New York N Yr — Ft the firi r'me
since the German mark started on 1m
Spectacular decline New Y'ork Lacks
yefueed to eveu quote It nominally
MRS FRANKLIN BISHOP
V: 7
Mrs Franklin Bishop of Massa-
chusetts Is ths newly elected presi-
dent of the Amerlcsn Lrglon auxiliary
THREE VILLAGES LIE
SLIME OF MONSTER MUD LAKE
COVERS THEM NOW
Six Hundred Perish When Giant Dam
Lett Furious Flood Loose In
Valley Below Lake
Bergamo Italy— Six hundred dead
three villages destroyed and fifty
square miles made desolate This
was the toll of flood from Gleno Lake
hen the great dyke guarding it col-
lapsed releasing the irresistible force
of the water which bursting forth in
mad furry carried all before It It
swept before the hills and down Into
the valleys for a distance of fifteen
miles to Lake lseo which checked the
momentum of the vast stream arrest-
ing its course
Bergamo valley Is nothing now but
a barren waste of mud and water— a
veritable lake in which It Is danger-
ous to venture for in some places It
is over a man’s head In this soggy
mass the bodies of the victims lie
tangled among fallen trees telegraph
poles bridges and buildings Some
portions of broken walls project as
mute evidence of the tremendous
might with which the waters engulfed
the region The homeless are counted
in the thousands most of whom are
mourning for lost relatives or search-
ing for their bodies Relief parties
from Milan and Brescia are on the
scene while all available troops have
been mustered to aid the shelterless
Countryside Seem Wiped Away
The three villages almost complete-
ly destroyed were Itezzo Corna and
Bueggio Of the 5o0 inhabitants of
Dezzo only three survived
The disaster threatens to be one
of the greatest of its kind because of
the vast amount of water let loose on
the countryside It destroyed hun-
dreds of homes where families perish-
ed without even realizing the tragedy
that overwhelmed them
Apparently the djke yielded through
the immense pressure of the water aw
the two ends where the masonry was
imbedded in the mountains Torren-
tial rains had occurred and they con-
tinue rendering disaster more menac-
ing for the homeless and hindering re-
lief work The cold Is intense
The cloudy foggy atmosphere pro
vente a general view of the catastro-
phe The entire countryside where
the fury of the elements ragt d seems
to have been wiped out by this super-
human force Houses bridges and
trees were toppled over like nine pins
and have floated away or are banked
up against the hill3
The Immense body of water carry-
ing with it mud and d-bris of ail kinds
1-veled the villaso-s Joining on Its vev
with the mountain torrents at even
exacavated the mountain sde and de-
scended swiftly OD the plain of Co-
rona detro lng in a f-w mlnu'es
houses and factories and the electric
light centers
WRECKS SPECIAL TRAIN
Broke Fearing He Would Be Left
Behind Turn Amateur Engineer
Waynesbure Ta — Fearing le would
be left behind because of lark of
funds when the special train bound
for the Washington and J‘ffrsn-
Wst Virginia fou'bali game at Mor-
gantown pulled out Denver Ciimi) 14
years old of Hiave near here climb' d
aboard the special aeveral hours be-
fore it was to have been started and
opening throttle drove the train at
breakneck speed along the dangerous
mountain curves until the engine b-ft
the rails wrecking the train and
knocking the ameteur engineer uncon-
scious Gump is not seriously hurt
Land Leased to Study Forest Fires
New Orleans La — The sou'bern
forestry experiment station here -of
the federal bureau of forestry an-
nounced that Frederick E Hardtman
of the Urania Lumber company Uran-
ia La had leased to the bureau for
a term of tLhty ars at $100 j-nUl
a year 1600 acres of land in Winn
Parish this state for experimental
purposes It Is the first tract leased
In Isuiislnna Fvperlm'-nt s'ntlon w!!l
utilise Jt to study foret ?!rs fh'-lr
prevention reforestation growth of
limber and other subjects
Important Actions
of State Legislature
W F Bickford
Oklahoma City — A deadlock devel-
oping in the Oklahoma legislature on
laws to curb the Ku Klux Klan prob-
ably will result in submission of the
controversy to popular ote 'fih At
least two bills before the electorate
one representing the views of the
“antis" the other those of the “pros”
History of the situation to date may
be summarized thus:
Governor Walton when first sub-
jected to investigation declared that
a majority In each branch of the leg-
islature were Klausmen
Leaders in both houses retorted
that as soon as Walton's case was
disposed of the matter of adequate
Klan legislation woull be considered
Following Walton's Impeachment
and removal from office it quickly
developed that pro-Klan legislators
were in control to the extent that they
could prevent the' passage of a bill
forcing publicity of the Klan member-
ship rolls
Governor M E Trarp Is anti-Klan
When the first indications of deadlock
became Apparent he announced that
unless agreement on adequate anti-
Klan legislation -yak r possible he
would address the lawmakers In per-
son or send them a message outlin-
ing in unmistakable language the sort
of law he thought should be passed
The respective party leaders In the
senate quickly took sides on the gen-
eral subject the Republican spokes-
man Harry O Glasser of Enid con-
t ducting the fight for an anti Klan
I bill with teeth and in the face of al-
most certain failure first proposing
that the legislature submit two meas-
ores to the people one drawn by each
tide
j Democratic Floor Leader Wash
Hudson of Tulsa admitting his mem
J bershlp in the Klan assured leader-
j ship for the forces of the invisible
I empire
Having first defeated repeatedly
' proposals pointing to publicity of mem-
bership rolls in secret organizations
even at the order of a court or grand
iury the Klan advocates then turned
'o the anti masking provisions osten-
sibly acceptable to the organization
All tentative votes pointed to an In-
hibition against masking but with so
many exceptions to the rule that In
effect the mask would continue to b
worn as widely as the Klan Itself
wishes it to be worn
In the house much futile debate
was indulged In on the general sub-
ject of Klan legislation but all signs
here
any penal institution must in the fu-
point'd to d'-fermeut of any j lure be filed with the secretary of
al action there until the senate had state for public record
"poki-n its final word on bills pending
there
Governor Trapp It was suggested
would welcome an opportunity to call !
a special election at which the people
hemselves might pass on the issue
Carl Rice of Tulsa for many years
a personal and official Intimate ot
Governor M E Trapp’s plans called Governor Trapp became chairman of
or a legislative vacation from Thanks-j the state board of public affairs Dec
giving to early January but such mac- 1 succeeding Ben F Lafayette of
u-rs as the anti Klan law dispute I Checotah
measures to purge the house member- j This particular appointment Is con-
hip of men under cloud and the var-j sldered the choicest within the power
ious investigations on foot combined of the governor to bestow carrying
to keep the lawmakers at the capitoi 1 with It as it does responsibility foe
until well into December j virtually all state contracts and the
When the recess is finally taken a 1 multitudinous purchases which must
joint committee of leaders will con-1 be made for institutions and depart-
Juct a general survey of state govern- ments
ment with a view to suggesting need-1 Rice now an accountant was dep-
d reforms in every direction On this uty county clerk of Logan county
committee it was predicted would be when Trapp was the clerk and as-
ienato:s Anglin ef Holdenvllle Car- aidant state auditor whenTrapp was
lock of Ardmore Cordell of Washita elected auditor with the coining of
ourty Joe Looney of Wewoka and statehood to Oklahoma
Hill of Cherokee and Representatives State Health Commission A E Dav-
fcBee of Iuncan Vernon of Coweta enport a Walton appointee tendered
isney of Muskogee and Stovall of Kis resignation to Governor Trapp and
Hugo bad it accepted following his indict-
In addition to the formal efforts - ment on a charge of placing Walton's
i remove Representatives Guy Sigler j rivate chauffeur on the health de-
if Ardmore and Murray F Gibbons I payment payroll
-f Purcell former speaker the house Former Governor Walton ex-Health
onsMered the matter of ousting all Commissioner Davenport and Walton’s
vho had not been in attendance on chauffeur T P Edwards all indicted
V special session In connection with the carrying of Ed-
hgler was cleaed of the pardon wards as a health detriment em-
a Licking charge a-ainst him while ploye Indicated an intention to con-
ib! or s prepared fr a triil and bitter ! test their prosecution every Step of
bt against oust'-- the way
AUut Tlarkst-i lrg Represent x-1 The deposed governor lost In an-
ve Joe I’ H'-ssifer of Ilenryetta other court fight when the supreme
er locrai'c floor d'-r for the Walton court refused to b'-ar big application
i carira‘lo'1 at tie regular ion tor an order compelling the senate
t in an a-1 arar e or the fst lirn-' Impearlini' tit court to file Walton's
t Ite sp'-clal s mi"n He explained tail of exceptions on which he seek
it Ms ab-e-c- aa due to Mis line o take an appeal to the United
er's peolocgi-'l and serious I In -s Htat s supreme court
-d was jcu-ed by t’ e house to re-
i ii to w iVs ra !: !dc
I'vi MTvion of Horace Hagan ! j at from Il-itri t J ml ire T G Cham-
'P-a p-’ilir of the soldiers relief in’ ruling here that the Oct 2 slate-
onnliifiri at ti e Irrtant of K' p e- election was lib gal Judge
rta'lve Ji Pullen of Sulphur rc-l(iaml(H acted on a proceeding In-
Iti d In Hagan's compo te exon ra rtitutr il at Governor Walton's Instance
on of the charges brought by l'ullrn 1 and attorneys who repret nt' d the
ousted executive before the senate
argu'd the case in supreme court
Certificates of convenience 'and
Abolishment of the office of state J ncrtrsiiy to operate motor car freight
ighway commissioner by Governor j nPg between cities or town that are
Trapp is forecast by friends of goI adequately served by existing railway
oads who have been discussing roa-J tines will not bo granted by the cor
gliding plans with the governor poration commission according to or-
it is r port'd that Coventor Trapp jr 26G
pncts to organize a board of busl-1 The order was a denial of the are
tn-a to serve without jay to' jj aton 0f the Highway Tranr?-
oversee tho wok of road building I Q ( company to operate autornobilt
t manner similar to that In which the frfKtt lines between the cities of
capitoi comrpi'-ion took part In th Oklahoma City G'-ary ami FI Reno
lulldlnr of the state capitoi during i over which route the company has
the aiulifciialon of Judge Robert Ljbn operating liua I or the last
iliiins This non salaried hoard eighteen mouths
lagan was declared to have conducted
is office in an exemplary manner
Impeachment proceedings against
Supreme Couct Comndssioner Charles
II Ruth intimate friend and adviser
of former Governor Walton virtually
reached an Impasse in the senate
when question of that body's right to
try him was raised Chief Justice J
T Johuson of the supreme court who
is the legal presiding officer of the
impeachment court disqualified him-
self in Ruth's case because of the lat-
ter's connection with the supreme
court President Fro Tem Tom Ang-
lin was then selected to preside
In the event the senate ultimately
decldedit had no Jurisdiction to try
Ruth it was considered probable re-
moval proceedings would be Instituted
against him in district rtmrt by the
attorney general
Removal of John B Campbell an-
other close friend of the fofmer gov-
ernor was recommended by the house
general Investigating committee after
probe of the federal truck department
of the state highway departmeoL
Campbell had been master ot the
trucks for some months
Upon receiving information that the
cash accounts of the Stillwater A and
M college werq '-short $132000 the
bouse investigators summoned every
banker in the college town directing
them to bring all records bearing on
the financial career of M J Otey
former financial secretary of the Institution
Before the state supreme court had
an opportunity to decide whether Sec-
retary of State R A Sneed should be
compelled to attest Xenophon Jones'
pardon Governor Trapp recalled the
document which was signed a few
hours before Governor Walton’s sus-
pension from office but not presented
for nearly a month thereafter
Under Trapp's order which latei
was made applicable to all Walton
pardons and paroles still unrecorded
and not attested by Sneed the rich
negro murderer must remain in the
penitentiary at McAlester
An extensive inquiry by the house
investigating committee established a
connection between the Jones pardon
and Supreme Court Commissioner
Charles H Ruth Attorneys Moman
Pruiett and Orban Patterson of Okla-
homa City Mrs R L Fite vice-chairman
of the Democratic state central
committee and Mrs Jennie Fields a
state capltol clerk for several years
Governor Trapp directed that all
leaves of absence of any nature from
clemency and those protesting
Records filed with the secretary of
state in the future will show those
instrumental in securing executive
The supreme couit has beard ex-
tendi d arguments on the state's ap-
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ONE DEAD AND TWENTY-
FOUR ARE INJURED
Engineer Thought to Have Died While
at Throttle and Failed to Have
Seen Signale
Columbia S C— John H Evans ot
Macon Ca is dead and at least twenty-tour
others are slightly injured as
the results ot a wreck near Nahunta
Ga when Southern Railway passen-
ger train No 8 the “Kansas City Flor-
ida special" ran into the rear of
Louisville t Nashville passenger train
No 32 the "Southland" according to
members of the crew of tourist train
which was ths collision at Nahunta
Ga believe that John D Evans of
Macon Ga engineer on the Southern
train was dead before bis train ran
Into the rear end of the Southland
This belief It Is reported among
railroad men Is based on the alleged
fact that the Sou'hern train ran over
torpedoes and past flare signals placed
by the crew of the Southland to pro-
tect it while making the transfer at
the Nahunta Junction to the Albany-
Biunswick line of the Atlantic Coast
Line The Southland it Is said was
making a detour by way of Nahunta
because of an obstruction on the
straight line between Folkston aAd
YVaycross
Information at the dispatcher’s of-
fice was tha' Engineer Evans had run
past a red light signal The Southland
had stopped to cross over to the Al-
bany line according to the dispatch-
er's office The Kansas City special
it was estimated had slowed down
to twenty or twenty five miles an hour
for the railroad crossing where the
wreck occurred
The baggage and mall cars of the
Kansas City special were derailed but
the rest of the train proceeded after
about an hour's delay All steel
equipment prevented heavy loss of
life in the the belief of the dispatch-
ers at Savannah
2 AIRPLANES IN COLLISION
Pilots in Darkness Pick Same Instant
to Land Both Unhurt
Long Beach Calif— Earl Daugherty
and Vernon J Anderson piloting their
planes through the darkness toward
an aviation field here recently picked
the same instant in which to attempt
a landlngy Alighting from opposite
directions their ships collided Neith-
er pilot was hurt
MINERS ARE BLOWN TO BITS
Powder Exploded White Miners Are
At Work in Arizona Shaft
Oatman Arlz— Three miners werp
kill' d when two boxes of powder er- !
plod'-d In the winze of the 700-foot level
of the United American mine here 1
The bodies of two men were blown to
pieces while a third miner was over-
come by fumes and was found dead
In the mine
Interurbans In Head on Crash
Joplin Mo — Running without order j
In a blinding snowstorm two Interur-
ban cars of the Southwest Missouri
Railroad company crash'd head on si
a curve near Galena Kan recently
'Students' Pass Fake Currency
St IxmU Mo— Youths posing as
students and offering to bet $PJ bills i
on collide football games have aided
In the distribution of counteifelt $10 J
notes such as were found In the pos-
session of a woman held here and
passed at I’eorta Illinois
Jury Convicts Denvtr Broker
Ih-nver Colo — Maui Ice Mandril
Denver broken was found guilty on
seven counts charging conspiracy to
defraud and embezzlement from the
Nlbrrnla Bank and Tru't company
which failed here Jm July for
$464000
Cold Epldemlo Hits Psris
1‘arls France— One man and one
woman have died and two men and
three woim n are In serious conditions
In hospitals following sudden ettarks
of lur g congestion hi I’arls streets due
n s-vrre rfM
MOTHER OF
LARGE FAMILY
Recommendi Lydia EL Pink-
ham’ Vegetable Compound
to Other Mothers
Windom Minn— “I was so run-down
that 1 was just good for nothing 1 waa to
become the mother
of myninthchildand
1 thought I did not
have the strength
to go through with
it 1 took Lydia E
Pinkham's Vegeta-
ble Compound and
it has surely done all
1 could ask it to do
and I am telling all
my friends about it
Ihaveanicebigbaby
girl and am feeling
fine Yon ma
other sick mothers" — Mrs CL A
Moede Box 634 Windom Minn
My First Child
Gen Allen Alabama— "I have been
greatly benefited by taking Lydia EL
Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for
bearing-down feelings and pains I was
troubled in this way for nearly four
years following the birth of my first
child and at times could hardly stand on
my feet A neighbor recommended the
Vegetable Compound to me after I had
taken doctor’s medicines withoat much
benefit It has relieved my pains and
gives me strength I recommend it and
give you permission to use my testing
nial letter”— Mts1da Rye Glen Allen
Alabama
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The old farmer was slowly but sure-
ly dying Lying In an apparently un-
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eyes and addressing Ms ancient smiise
said “Mary that burn smells very
cood almost llilnk I could eat some"
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with tin 1 lug That lira Is for the
funeral”
The hotisewrlfe smiles with satisfac-
tion ns she looks at the basket of
rlenr white clothes and thanks Red
Gross l'all HI no At ut grocers — Ad
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Century Old Woman Astronomer
One of the mist retunrkiiMe women
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