The Duncan Banner (Duncan, Okla.), Vol. 31, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, May 4, 1923 Page: 3 of 8
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THE DUNCAN BANNER FRIDAY MAY 4 1923
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Every Club of Oklahoma State
League Is Ready For Opening
Games of Season This Week
Pennant Race this Year
Will Be Hardest of
All To Win
From latest information from the
eight points on the circuit all of the
eight clube of the Oklahoma State
League are champing at the bits for
the Umpire's orders to “Play Ball"
The opening games on Thursday
May 8 are expected to draw record
crowds and in some of the cities all
business houses will close for at least
a part of the afternoon bands will
play flags will fly and parades will
form and march to the parks where
the season's opener will be staged
The season of 126 games will open
with
Clinton at Duncan — Umpire Ma-
honey Shawnee at Bristow — Umpire Shef-
field '
Cushing ' at Drumright — Umpire
Houser ‘
Guthrie at El Reno— Umpire Hock
Four Now Towns In League
The Oklahoma State League which
started and finished the season last
year as a six-club organization this
year has four new stops — Shawnee
Bristow Drumright and Cushing —
-with four holdovers from last year
Duncan Clinton El Reno and Guth-
rie New parks have been built in sev-
eral of -the cities in others the park
used last year has been improved and
modernized In Duncan the Oilers
will play in the same park but such
a change has been made since the
season closed last year that it will
seem like a new one
The playing field has been improv-
ed 25 per cent ' The pitcher’s box
has been treated to a surface and
mound of clay that will prevent the
digging of a hole which will be full
of sand and dust the home plate has
also received a hard-surface treat-
ment which will not wear away
The outfield has been cut down
until it is almost level having just
enough slope to make it ideal The
The actual manufacture o
a million Buicks has been
accomplished by the devel-
opment of an organization
of huge proportions by
the expansion of manu-
facturing facilities and the
creation of manufacturing
methods to insure the fin-
est possible workmanship
and quality
' The development of a car
h Bidet Factar-
wamllulah
Atk
Smith Buick Company
Successor to HiUery-Atkins Buick Company
fence has been moved back about 50
feet while the diamond has been
moved out from the grandstand about
80 feet
A new grandstand has been erected
with wide roomy seats and plenty of
foot-room A tier of boxes is loca-
ted at the foot of the grandstand next
to th6 wire netting The bleachers
have been repaired and strengthened
and the wire netting has been re-
paired and made about Six feet High
er Both the gates are on the east
sidenear the northeast corner of the
park this year
El Reno Doing Well
At El Reno the Railroaders ' un-
der the lead of Harry Burge a mem-
ber of the McAlester Western Asso-
ciation team last year and formerly
with the St Louis Cardinals are be-
ing put through strenuous taaining
and have won several exhibition
games Players signed up and ac-
cepted are Pitchers Peters Christian
and Lesser Firse Baseman Naylor
Third Baseman Harry Thisler Short-
stop Knowka and Outfielders Martin
and Snyder with five or six others
still in the tryout and a good catcher
being sought
-At Guthrie Bill - Williams first
baseman who last year had the
scouts from class A leagues looking
him over has signed up as man-
ager Williams already is putting
a new spirit of pep into the Guthrie
bunch training at Mineral Wells park
Pitchers Laney Henshaw Geddes
Jennings and Poseka were among the
first to report later being joined by
McGee last year with the Clinton
champions -
Drumright Has Youngsters
At Drumright Frank McGaha has
things moving lively with a new
park ready and the' Rotarians and
other organizations selling enough
booster tickets to put the club over
financially for the year On all days
except opening and holidays ladies
will be admitttd for half price and
once each month children will be ad-
mitted free and an effort made td
instruct them in the real priciples of
of sufficient value to at-
tract a million buyers has
brought a growth of dealer
and service organizations
everywhere to guarantee
further the high standard
of Buick performance
i
Buick’s millionth car is tan-
gible evidence of the qual-
ity that has made Buick
everywhere “The Standard
of Comparison”
Fours
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baseball
The Drumright squad is composed
largely of youngsters of ' promise
with several older players to guide
them The youngest is Weimer Bur-
dett of Springfield Mo who though
but 18 has been playing semi-proball
for several years and is highly
recommended by Doc Seabrough Vet-
eran Chicago catcher Leaving out
the three older men the average age
of the team is but 21
At Clinton W C Smoot backed
by a strong citizens committe is lin-
ing things up The park iB ready the
tickets sold and a big opening plan-
ned for '
At Shawnee Emmitt Rogers has
the town for the first time really
alive to baseball and the Chamber
of Commerce and business men gen-
erally are backing himup He has
the majority of his team' signed up
and is trying out a number of pros-
pects i
President Clay of the Cushing club
says they are ready for the opening
any time Their team is all signed
up and in training with a promise
of being-winners -and their new park
right up In town is about completed
jimmy Payne has all Bristow eat-
ing 'out his hand when it comes to
organized baseball and every civic
and busines organization in the
town is boosting for him and the
Bristpw club The mayor has pro-
claimed opening day a half holiday
Mr aad Mrs Witt Here
Mr and Mrs G A Witt of Okla-
homa City are in the cit for a sev-
eral days visit with friends They
have been living in the city since leav-
ing here several weeks ago and say
they like it fine but it would be much
better up there in the big city if they
could just move all their Duncan
friends up close to them There
probably never was a couple in the
city which was so well thought of as
are Mr and Mrs Witt and it is a real
pleasure to have these lovable and
loving people “back home” even if
they can only remain a few days
o
Mrs W L Brittain has as her
guest her father D C Fondren of El
Paso who will be here for several
weeks -
:
I Major Theodore H Lowe of Wash-
ington D C who is visiting Mr and
Mrs P G Russell spent several days
last week in Oklahoma City
Mrs 0 C Boone of the Duncan
hotel left yesterday for Tulsa to
spend ten days with her daughter
Mrs Other Roupeand family
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UUCP LEG3TJ
Post officers of American Legion
posts in every county in the state
have aigniflod their intentions to at-
tend the State Conference of Post
Commanders Adjutants and Service
officers to be held at Oklahoma City
May 1st in the House of Representa-
tives in ths Capitol building Gov-
ernor Walton has been invited to ad-
dress the conference Alvin Owsley
national commander of the American
Legion will make bis only stop in
Oklahoma City and appear at the
Conference to talk to bis former bud-
dies The Lawton post will send an
airplane to advertise the Legion
State Convention to be held there
August 20-21 Dudley Monk State
Commander will preside over the
Conference Talks on every phase of
Legion work will be made by post
officers following which there will
be general discussion - of the subject
Oklahoma City post No 35 and the
Oklahoma City Chamber of Com-
merce have sent invitations to each
post and 500 are expected to at-
tend The American Legion of Oklahoma
has been recognized by the Oklahoma
Poster Advertising Association as on
organization whose aims purposes
and accomplishments should be fully
known to every citizen in the State
The Association at its recent meeting
at Oklahoma City tendered the Le-
gion one-half the space on all poster
panels in the State for the space of a
month tobe Selected by the Legion
PIRACY AND E1UR0ER IN BOOZE
AS GRIME HAVE GROWS
Old Bussaneer Thrills
Now Tame Land
Gunmen Rival Wa-
ter Bandits
By EDWARD THIERRY
NEA Service Staff Writer 1
NEW YORK April 28— Piracy
and murder are writing pages pictur-
esque and violent in the booze history
of America No complete statistics
are available of this growing crime
phase yet thrills surpassing fiction
are founc even in a brief and casual
survey '
Smugglers pirates hi - "jockers"
gunmen bootleggers and bandits to-
day furnish battle blood and color
not to be found between the covers
of yesterday’s dime novels
'
Thirty-three federal dry agents
have been killed since enforcement
began not counting police and other
city county and state officers
Booze directly or indirectly killed
72 persons in New York in the first
four months of 1923 according to
records of the medieal examiner’s of-
fice that’s more than four deaths a
week
Fights with the law and internal
feuds have cost the lives of many
bootleggers and rum runners Un-
listed numbers have died of poison-
ous liquor Whenever' and wherever
an unidentified body is found tke
specter of booze hangs prominently
over the mystery of the killing
Disaster has overtaken schooners
motor boats airplanes and automo-
biles smuggling liquor explosions of
stills and barrels and bottles of booze
have caused damage by fire and men-
aced lives hundreds of automobiles
have been stolen wrecked and de-
serted Here’s a fortnight’s characteristic
booze record: Five men murdered
five drowned one burned to death
one driven insane two wounded nine
mysteriously missing
Those two April weeks began with
a story of piracy from Vineyard Ha-
ven Mass Eight bodies were wash-
ed ashore after a battle at sea noisy
enough to be beard at the distant Gay
Head life saving staion The pir-
ates’ vessel got away in the fog but
the steamer John Dwight loaded with
bottled ale sank after her boilers
bad blows up
One of the victims was burned and
mutilated Three appeared to have
been clubbed to death The other
four were drowned
-
Pirates were blamed also for the
mystery shrouding the fate of nine
members of the crew of the schooner
Patricia M Breman found with sails
set and anchor dragging in Great
South Bay Long Island
Decks had been splintered by bul-
lets and were littered with cartrid-
ges Cabins were in disorder as if
captcin and crew had left hurriedly
for the purpose of giving publicity
to the organization and its annual
membership drive W R Burnett
Ardmore known as the “daddy" of
the Oklahoma association moved the
adoption of the resolution which was
seconded by Mr Finney of Tulsa the
other charter member of the adver-
tising association Fred Buell Law-
ton vice-president was active in be-
half of the resolution
A Twilight Baseball League open-
ed this week at Lawton with six Law-
ton clubs in the league All pro-
ceeds will go to the Legion Conven-
tion fund for entertaining the State
Convention of the American Legion
to be held at Lawton August 20-21
according to Fred Buell Lawton Con-
vention Chairman The organiza-
tions having clubs in the league are
Rotary Kiwanls Lions DeMolay
Lawton A Duncan Electric Co and
the American Legion Every civic
organization in the city is helping to
arrange for the biggest convention
in the city’s history
Governor Walton told representa-
tives of the Department Executive
Committee of the American Legion
headed by Department Commander
Dudley C Monk and including R C
Brown Watonga John Halley Okla-
homa City and Leon H Brown De-
partment Adjutant that he intended
to call a special election at which the
bonus will be submitted to a vote of
the people probably in September or
October the approximate time rec-
ommended by the American Legion
Department Commander Monk who is
a lawyer prepared a seven-page brief
supporting the legality of the sub-
mission of the bonus Constitutional
amendment at a special election as
directed by the legislature The Le-
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WHERE 33 DRY AGENTS
DIED
s
(By NEX Service) (
WASHINGTON April 28—
Here is the list of 33 federal
prohibition agents who have been
killed in line of duty to date
with the locations of their
death:
Stafford Becket El Paso Texas
Apha Carter Palisade Nev
Guy Cole Menifee Co Ky
W D Dorsey White Co Ga
Robert Dues Menifee Co Ky
Howard Fisher Titusville Va
Joseph Freeman Titusville Va
Joseph Floyd Houston Texas
John Thomas Foley Minn
Kirby Frank Perry Okla
Bert S Gregory Kansas City
Jacob Green Richter Miss
Richard Griffin St Claire Ala
Charles E Howell Decatur Ala
R W Jackson Reynolds Ga
Jesse R Johnson Saline county
Ark
Howell Lynch Jackson county
Tenn
Frank Matuskowitz Pitts ton Pa
James McGuiness Bayonne N
J
John O’Toole San Francisco
Joseph Owen Kosciusko Miss
Glenn Price New Grande Ronde
Oregon
J H Reynolds Paintsville Ky
J H Rose Wayne county N C
I N Scruggs Knoxville Tenn
Chas Sterner Kansas City Mo
Grover Todd New Grande Ronde j
Oregon
Ernest W Walker El Paso Tex
John Waters Dade City Fla
John Watson Anthony N M
Stanton Weiss Oklahoma City
Charles Wood El Paso Texas
LeRoy Youmans Hartsville SC
Were they carried away or driven
into sea? Empty whisky cases and
burlap sacks were found in the looted
hold and a notebook showed notations
of sales of 3918 packages of liquor
There was a case to a package it
seemed at $48 or $50 a case or some
$190000 worth of booze '
The same week a Concord N H
automobile dealer was shot and killed
in bis home during an argument over
the ownership of an automobile
which he had taken as security wnen
gion helped draft the measure which
it believes to be a model bill fair to
individuals and corporations alike It
calls for a net expense to the State
of not more than twenty-five million
dollars instead of fifty-five million as
some believed A maximum of thir-
ty million dollars to be loaned on
home aid would be repaid the Statt
This is said by the Legion to be a
smaller total exepnditure than ty
any of the nineteen other states vot-
ing bonus bills having as large a num-
ber of men In tht service
Oklahoma Legionnaires are rady
to greet their National' Commander
Alvin Owsley who will be in Okla-
kohma City May 1st his only stop in
the state Owsley will review a boys’
parade Tuesday morning May 1st
following which ha will give a public
address during tbs noon hour at the
Criterion Theater Representative!
of all civic organvetions have reser-
vations the balance of the beats being
tlrown op?n to the public In the
afternoon he will address the Sta s
Cnfercnce of ltgion Post dommnn-
ders Adjutants and Service Officers
at the State Capitol where many of
his former buddise will greet him A
public reception will be given at the
Capitol Tuesday evening Governor
Walton and Mayor Cargill and De-
partment officials will take part
Commander Owsley comes direct
from Dallas and leaves for Amarillo
He will return to Oklahoma in June
or July to attend the opening of the
Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital at Mus-
kogee Funeral strvices preached in Eng-
lish by Rev Jack Dew were translat-
ed into Pawnee Indian language by
Charle Allen at a military funeral
given by Earl Maggart Post No 26
e paid the fine of “wo convi ted
rum runners in 1921
Two other violent deaths occurr J
in a single day A New York ma'i
was shot j death and a Savanna1
Ga man was di owned when he lei
d into the river after being captured
in a liquor-laden automobile
A duel between iver pirates qaur-r-’ing
over !qaor from ocean liue-s
is believed to haw caused the deah
o' the man found rcvwer in hand
slumped over the steering wheel of a
motor boat sliding slowly down the
Hudson river
During the same two weeks a Long
Island man was found insane from
exposure after drifting at sea with
two others in a launch loaded with
83 cases of whisky two men were
wounded one shot four times during
a quarrel among bootleggers in
Brooklyn and Bridgeport reported
310 stolen automobiles still unclaim-
ed of some 400 picked up by Conn-
ecticut state police since January and
mostly said to have been used by
rum runners '
River pirates afloat in motor boats
scooting in and out among the piers
in every port along the Atlantic sea-
board have been responsible for even
more killings and battles than rum
pirates who sail the 12-mile limit
Ocean liners tied at piers and car-
at Pawnee in honor of their deceased
Indian comrade Charlie Riding-Up
Eight Indian buddiea acted as pall
bearers and J New Rier blew taps
Other buddies who are members of
the Pawnee post compose the firing
squad
Shawnee Minister
' Fills the Baptist
Pulpit Sunday
Prof Rector of Baptist ' University
Has Good Hearing
Rev W Lee Rector professor in
the Baptist University st Shawnee
occupied the pulpit at tho First Bap-
tist church at both hours Sunday
supplying for the pastor Rev Elmer
Ridgeway who is conducting a meet-
ing in Trinity Baptist church Okla-
horns City
Phof Rector was given a splendid
hearing at both services and delivered
two able and interesting discourses
At the morning hour his subject was
“The Triumphing Life" He took
Paul as an example of the triumph-
ant Christian life and told how that
great apostle pressed forward to the
mark of the prize of his high calling
in spite of all obstacles and how he
was ready to go when the hour of his
departure arrived having fought the
good fight and kept the faith At the
evening hour the minister’s subject
was “Christ the Source and Center of
Rest” This was also a eery helpful
and comforting message
Rev Rector will occupy this pulpit
again next Sunday for both services
His subject for the morning hour will
he “The Silver Lining to the Cloud”
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Nearly everybody in Duncan reada
UAR
OH COAST
Four Deaths a Week In
New York 33 Gov-
ernment Agents
Killed r
go ships anchored in harbors are the
pirates’ prey A fatal duel in the
Hudson river was the latest of many
scrimmages previously there was a
murder in a New York harbor smug-
gling plot another when detectives
descended upon pirates looting a ship
at Hoboken a battle in a Florida port
when one gang betrayed another to
government agents a pistol fight in
which 20 men were seized as they
boarded a schooner in New York Bay!
and a gun fight when pirates attackM
a rum runner in a New Jersey pore-
Want to read of death piracy and
fighting?
Thumb the newspaper fileB This
is a sample taste picked at random
New York saloonkeeper killed in a
quarrel with dry agent liquor-laden
airship wrecked on flight from Cana-
da Ohio dry agent murdered pir-
ates loot rum schooner driven ashore
at Montauk Point LI T New Yorkers
murdered in bootleggers’ controversy
sea battle between hydroplane and li-
quor boat Here’s the total: - 11
persons killed eight gun fights three
acts of piracy and four wrecks
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The Duncan Banner (Duncan, Okla.), Vol. 31, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, May 4, 1923, newspaper, May 4, 1923; Duncan, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1742657/m1/3/?q=War+of+the+Rebellion.: accessed July 8, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.