Miami Record-Herald (Miami, Okla.), Vol. 30, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, October 26, 1923 Page: 1 of 8
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Lending Newspaper of North-
eastern Oklahoma - Only Otta-
ora County Paper Wish a Bona-
fide County-Wide Circulation
Miami
OTTAWA n"NTY’S
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Official Democratic Newspaper of Ottawa County Oklahoma
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MIAMI OTTAWA COUNTV OKLAHOMA FRIDAV OCTOBER 26 1023
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Communication Understood to
Offer American Aid in
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URGES EMY ACTION
ScwUry of Btate Informs British
Government United Htutcs Con-
1 aiders European Bitua
lion Grafo
(By the United Press)
' Washington Oct 25 — Secretary
of State Hughes has dispatched a
note to the British government with
reference to the reparations prob-
lem it was learned here today
The note is understood to state
that the United States regards the
European’ situation as grave and 'be-
lieves some plactical plan should be
placed In effect immediately to solve
the problem
- ' The note further states according
to authoratiye Information that the
United States stands ready "to aid
in such settlement In any practical
wcy” ’
— —
INDEPENDENCE FETE
Queen Imaim and C of C Dcie-
: gallon Probably Will At-
tend Neewollah Festival
! Quoen Imaim represented by Miss
Muvine Palmer 16-year-old Miami
girl Who was elected queen during
(bo spring festival here last May will
probably again don her crown and
Journey to Independence Kan to
visit the court of Queen Necwoilah
who will reign during tho fifth an-
nual “Neewollah” celebration Octo-
ber 31
‘ Complying with a letter received
from Mayor I G Fowler of inde-
pendence the Chamber of Commerce
at its Thursday noonday luncheon
considered the selection of a young
lady to represent Miami at the
Hallowe'en ‘celebration Supt J E
Arendell of the city schools sug-
gested that Miss Palmer he sent to
the Kansas queen's court and thut a
delegation of Miami business men
also attend the evnt Tho recom-
mendation met with the hearty ap-
proval of the meeting and probably
will he carried out
Mayor Fowler gave assurance hi
his letter that Independence would
be glad to play with Miami on an-
other day and compliance with his
request for a representative In Queen
Nrtevollali’s court no doubt would
build a bond of friendship between
the two cities and assure Miami of
the co-operation of the Kansas town
during the next Imalm-Amohulko
celebration
‘Double’ Testifies for
Mrs Helen E Stokes
New York Oct 25 — A red haired
‘double" of Mrs Helen Elwood
Btokes was put on the witness stand
in the W E D Stokes suit for div-
orce Wednesday afternoon
Appearance of this other woman
who resembled the former Denver-
girl and who had hair of nearly the
came shade caused a sensation in
the court room
Witnesses for the millonaire had
Just finished testifying to having
seen Mrs Stokes at a week-end party
in Connectitcut They said she had
gone under the name of Mrs Wynno
The red-haired "double" who proved
to be Mrs Howard H Bell testified
that at the time witnesses told of
seeing Mrs Stokes at the Pepper-
man home in Connecticut the (the
witness) bad been there v
' THE WEATHER
b Cloudy tonight and Friday
probably light rain cooler
Forbes Bartered Hospital
Contracts Witness Says
COL CHARI El It FORBES
Former Head of War Veterans’ Bureau Entered Into Agreement
For Three-Way Division of Profits Contractors’
Agent Tells Senate Committee
(By the United Press)
Washington Oct 25 — A' tentative
arrangement was reached between
Col Charles R Forbes former bead
of the veteran's bureau and repre-
sentatives of construction firms for
a three-way division of profits aris-
ing from the cnstruction of the pro-
posed hospitals at Livermore Cal
American Lake Wash and St
Cloud Minn it waa testified before
the Benate Investigating committee
today
The witnesses who testified to
this agreement was E H Mortimer
who said that in the summer of 1922
he accompanied Forbes to the Paci-
fic coaBt and acted as the represen-
tative of the Thompson-Black Con-
struction interests
Mortimer said that in a conver-
sation at Hayden Lake Wash Mr
Hurley of the Hurley Mason con-
struction company of Spokane
Wash proposed that the profits on
the three hospitals be divided one-
third to the Hurley-Mason company
Which would actually construct the
hospitals one-third to the Thompson-Black
interests and one-third to
Colonel Forbes
Kali Would Get $150000
In the ensuing conversation be-
tween Hurley Mortimer and Forbes
'the witness said it was decided that
the promiuma from the three hos-
pitals amounted to $150000 each
which would make each portion of
the three way division' $150000
i Mortimer said that upon his re-
turn to Washington in June 19 22
I
Indications School Act Passed
At October 2 Election Revives
County’s Hopes of $100000 Aid
L
Belief that the amendment p -avid
lug for an annual tax levy of $15 for
tho education of every school stu-
dents in the state was passed iu (lie
October 2 bpecial election was ex-
pressed lu a letter recelvod Thurs-
day by William LeMay county
school superintendent from tho
State Educational association Okla-
homa City Passage of the amend-
ment would benefit Ottawa county
more than $100000 and the city of
Miami schools about $30000
"In the absence of official tabula-
tion by the state election board as
yet” the letter stated "‘These fig-
ures are as nearly reliable as can
be had and show the better schools
amendment passed by a small major-
ity" 144350 Votes fdr It
Taking the vote on Amendment
No 79 providing for sessions of the
legislature without call of the gov
Forbes offered to take him on his
trip to the Pacific CoaBt and to give
him the same information concern-
ing products lu the West thut Mor-
timer has enjoyed in the East Thera
upon Jlortimer continued Forbes
asked him for a loan of $5000
This loan was consumated In Chi-
cago on their way west Mortimer
said' Mortimer got the money from
Thompson and Black on his personal
note and turned It over to Forbes
according to Mortimer's testimony
The loan was not repaid Mortimer
testified
’ Gnvo Confidential Data
Mortimer who Is now a member
of a' Philadelphia coal firm testi-
fied that lie came to Washington in
February 1922 as the representa-
tive of a number of contracting com
panies of St Louis Detroit Dallas
and Chicago He said that after be-
coming acquainted with Forbes in a
social way Forbes gavq him confi-
dential information on the location
of proposed sites for hospitals plans
and specificating which gave the
companies he represented an enor-
mous advantage over their compe-
titors Forbes planned in the summer of
1922 to succeed Senator Fall as
Secretary of the Interior Mortimer
testified
Mortimer described a conversa-
tion held at Coronado Beach Cul
in which Forbes is alleged to have
told Mortimer and a Caliornia poli-
tician that "he had it all fixed with
President Harding to become Secro-
tary of the Interior”
ernor as a high vote cast tho total
I of ballots cast was 274434 while
I the better schools amendment re-
ceived 144359 votes or 63 per cent
of the total tbe lotter states
The letter contains the vote of
every Oklahoma county except those
where balloting was prevented and
they were obtained direct from
county ’school superintendents over
the stats
I The list shows that Ottawa county
cast 2449 votes agains the measure
and 4033 for it '
I Would Be Boon to City
I In case the election is held legal
it has virtually been assured that the
schools amendment was passed and
the special school funds will be forth
coming next year and every year
thereafter
Supt J E Arendell said today
that receipt of the $30000 next year
I would put the Miami school system
in excellent financial condition
Appeal to Exiled Heir of Ho-
henzollems Discussed as
- Last Resort
FIGHTINGjCONTINUES
Food Riot In Hamburg and Berlin
Increase Gravity of Situation
40 Reported Slain at
Crefeld
(By United Press)
Berlin Oct 25— Chancellor Stres-
emann and hia cabinet are consider-
Ing a request to summon the former
German Crown Prinre back to Ger-
many in the hope that the scion of
the Hohenzollerns mlgh' be able to
prevent the disruption of Germany It
was learned today)
Fierce fighting between Separatists
and loyal Germanacontinues through
the Rhineland according to dis-
patches received here Fresh rioting
also has broken out in Hamburg
where hungry crowds appeared in
many places plundering and rioting
Forty persons Including the chief
of police were killed in fighting at
Crefeld
Belgian soldiers Intervened in fa-
vor of Separatists fighting for pos-
session of Alx la Chapellc later dis-
patches said
Mobs Raid Food Shops
Food shops were’ plundered -by
Berlin mobs following an aunouuce-
tteut that tbe price of bread had
been Increased German ministers
receiving dispatches telling of disor-
ders and rebellion in distant cities
hoard almost beneath their windows
tho cries of 'hungry crowds rioting
In the streets of the capital
Palatinate Declares Anonomy
To add to the troubles of the Cen-
tral gorc-nment the Palatinate a
former Bavarin province south of
the new Rhineland republic declares
Its autonomy It was not clear
however whether it Intended to se-
cede from ormany
Meanwhile the Rhineland rebels
were still struggling to establish a
separate state and make good their
secession from Germany “ A report
that France had formally recognized
he rebel government was flatly de-
nied in Paris
14000 Out of Work
' The August Thiessen mines in
Hambqrn were closed today throw-
ing 1100 Oout of work
In Biemon organized bands of
communists were broken up and re-
pulsed by police
MAY BREAK WITH FRANCE
Berlin Oct 25 — The German gov-
ernment is preparing to break with
France if its note sent to the repara
tlons commission pleading Inability
to pay under present conditions is
abruptly repulsed U was learned
today
The note was said to point out
Germany’s inability to deliver coal
supplies and other reparations in 1
kind The French attitude was blam-
ed for failure to arrive at an agree-:
ment that would have led to re-1
sumption of deliveries The note as-!
sorted Germuny was wiJUng to “pay!
reparations under proper condi-
tions" government officials said
SEPARATISTS LYNCHED
Berlin Oct 25— Loyal Germans
have lynched a number of separat-
ists In Aix La Chapelle dispatches
said today Many of the Rhenish Re-
publicans were literally beaten to
death Scores were wounded in fight
Ing between supporters of the Reich
and the secessionists
Dynamite Destroys
Home of Dry Agent
Youngstown Ohio Oct 25 — The
home of Dr S E Conrad state pro-
hibition enforcement agent was de-
stroyed by a dynamite explosion dur-
ing (he uight The doctor hl vyifo
and' their daughters were sahken HP
but not icrlously Injured : t
- Police believe the explosion was
the work of bootleggers -
MAY COME BACK
Former German Crown Prince
Slated for Role of
Nation’s Savior
US PUTS WARSHIPS
ON AUCTION BLOCK
Twenty Offered For Sale Today
At Navy Yards on the
Atlantic Coast
(By the United Press)
Philadelphia Oct 25 — The' Con-
stitution and the United Slates hair
completed $43000000 liattle cruis-
ers will be sold at auction at the
Philadelphia Navy Yards today
Simultaneously battleships and
cruisers will go under the auction-
eer's hammer at sales to be held in
the navy yards at New York Nor-
folk Mare Island Puget Sound Bos-
ton and the Bethlehem shipbuilding
plant
In accordance with the limitations
of arms treaty Uncle Sam iB dlspos-'
ing of twenty-one battleships and
cruisers in there auction sales onej
today another on Nov 1 and the
third on Nov 30 I
The "Eagles of the Sea" will creep'
from their cob-webbed moorings and
go to tbe highest bidder but their
ultimate fate jvH be the Junk heap
The ships to be sold are the Ver-
mont Nebraska Delaware Michi-
gan Georgia Rhode Island Kan-
sas Minnesota Iowa Constitiutlon
Montana North Carolina South Da-
kota Indiana United States New
Hampshire Louisiana Connecticut
Raner and the Massachusetts
On December 1 tbe United Staes
will only have eighteen battleships
left In active Bervlco The twenty-
one vessels to be sold will have pass
ed into the oblivion
Valued at more than half a bil-
lion dollars the fighting craft to be
salvaged will bring cniy a compara-
tive pittance
England France and Japan are
keeping pace with the scrapping
program according to Government
officials I
E leven T eacher s T ake
County Examinations
Eleven teachers were receiving
the examinations for county Bchnol
certificates Thursday in the offices
of William LeMay county superin-
tendent Tho examinations a quar-
terly event will be in progress Fri-
day and Saturday The following
teachors are undergoing the tests:
Arlle Hummel of Fnirland who
teaches in District 36 A M Med-
lock Baxter Springs District 1
Mayme Waldon Miami consolidat-
ed District 1 J C Baker Miami
District 29 Jesse Murtin Commerce
District 48 Marvel Logan Commer-
ce District 48 Mrs R E Chandler
Miami district 37 Ethel Medlock
Baxter Springs District 1 C H
Keith Seneca District 4 Freta L
Draught Fulrland Distript 30 O O
Murphy Wyandotte District 44
Cake cau be made In "half the
time ordinarily rojuired by using oil
Instead of solid shortening cooking
sxporlmenes at tho University of
Washington indicate
MEMBER BEATEN WHEN HE
CHARGES DRAGON JEWETT
DIRECTS FIGHT ON WALTON
Army Fliers Off on
Flight From Canada
To Mexican Border
(Bv Unites Prow’
Seattle Wash Oct 25 — Capt
Lowell Smith and Lieut John
Richter army aviators left Sum-
as Wash -at 6:25 o'clock this
morning in an effort to establish
a non-stop flight record in a
flight from the Canadian bordor
to the Mexican boundary:
OKLAHOMANS HOLD
SECRET SESSION AT
KUKLUX CONCLAVE
Leaders Deny They Discussed
Walton Fight Declaring
Oath to Uphold Laws
Was Reaffirmed
(By United Prossl
' Dallas Texas Oct 25 — “Ku
Klux Klau day" at the Texas state
fair brought klansmen to this city
today from ail parts of Ibo souih-
Oklalioma City Oct ’‘25 — J C
Walton and M E Trnpp both ctalm-
- 71 W Evans imperial wlzardrwas-jj' tha rlght to(iay 0xerclS0 th0
tbe nWnrinal sneaker power of governor a -
The State Supreme court will de-
cide on the justice of these claims
this afternoon when It will meet to
rule on an apjlication to make peN
manent the writ of prohibition
which restrains Walton from inter-
t fering with Trapp in the exercise of
was the first general meeting of Ok-
f the latter 8 duties as acting gover-
lahoma klansmen so far as Is u
’ nor The writ of prohibition was ob-
known since the Oklahoma fight
0 A tamed by Attorney General Short
started lent unusual intcrcbv to the
t late Wednesday after attorneys for
gA i Walton had been granted a tempor-
Aftor the meeting It was said
Oklahomans had again taken
oath to uphpld constituted laws
BUZZARD SWEEPS
WESTERN STATES
T a ei
Foot of Snow Falls In Colorado
and Wyoming' Denver
Hit By Gale
Denver Colo Oct 25 — A blizzard
swept Denver and surrounding ter-
ritory today interrupting railroad
and wire communication
Mpre than a foot of snow fell
throughout Colorado and Wyoming
accompanied by a heavy wind
Trees here fell before the gale islative bill
blocking sidewalks Most of the reel- Suspension of the writ of habeas
deutial district is without llghtH and corpus
street car service is at a standstill Unlawfully preventing a meeting
of tho state legislature
Attempted prevention of a spe-
cial state election in violation of
law
Walton Went to Court
A campaign to raise about $7000 1 Following a long conference with
for the erection of n permanent bis attorneys Governor Walton late
home for Miumi's sales day will be' Wednesday opened the court action
made In the near future 'M W 1 1° settle the question of who Is gov-
Krieger secretary announced at the ernor by filing in district court an
Thursday luncheon of the Chamber 'application for an injunction against
of Commerce 'Lieutenant Governor Trapp to re-
Plans for tbe proposed building strain him from ussuming the duties
were presented to tbe Chamber
members by W J Murtin chief en-
gineer of the Northeast Oklahoma
railroad who said the structure
would require a plot of ground 120
by 200 feet The plans provide for
the erection of a large puvillou in
the center with seats for 300 per-
sons Around the pavilion would be
the livestock pens with space for
720 hogs 144 cattle a large number
of horses and storage room for im-
plements furniture and other arti-
cles Under the plan there will be chat
approaches to the center pavilion
with space at the side for a restaur-
ant Mr Martin said that church
women of the city had asked that
such space be provided in order that
they might conduct the restaurant
for church benefits
Attack on Rep J P Callahan
Interrupts Balloting on
Impeachment Counts
COURT TO ACT TODAY
Will Rule on Short's Request for
Permanent Writ of Prohibition
to Prevent Walton From
Interfering
(By United Press)
Oklahoma City Oct 25— A fist
fight in the lowr house of the Ok-
lahoma legislature today interrupted
impeachment proceedings against
llovornoi Walton
Rop J P Callahan speaking
against tbe approval of charges
against Walton declared Grand Drag-
on Jewett of the Ku Klux Klan was
directing the action of the legisla-
turf
' Cries of "liar" were heard from
various parts of the chamber and a
do ion representatives rushed at
Callahan Several biowB were struck
before neutral legislators could con-
duct Callahan from tbo room Tbs
latter's clothing was torn and -dis-
arrangeu
ary injunction in District court to
restrain Trapp from taking over the
gubernatorial chair
Walton Still Holds Office
Walton closuly surrounded by bis
bodyguard continued to occupy the
executive offices tills morning
The house of representatives this
morning took up additional counts
against Walton after approving five
tt&uiuau irauwu mici appiuvmg iivo
additional charges bringing the to-
tai to seven The chargeB on which
Walton now tands Impeached are
as follows:
Diversion of public funds to his
private use
Prohibiting the convening of a
legally ordered grand Jury
Use of his official Influence to ac-
quire private credit and property
Accepting bribe to approve a leg-
of tho executive office
Judge Tom G Chambers who was
appointed to his position by the
governor Issued a temporary writ
against the lieutenant governor and
aet Thursday for the hearing to
make It permanent
Scarcely on hour lator Attorney-
General George Short went before
the supreme court with his applica-
tion for the writ of prohibition
against Governor Walton and Judge
Chambers and tho tempbrary order
was issued after a brief oral pres-
entation of tbe case
The Attorney-General said he rep-
resented Lieutenant Governor Trapp
as the acting governor
Ulrminghnin Ala has organized
a school to inach textile designing
to women - ' ' " ’
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Martin, Eugene P. Miami Record-Herald (Miami, Okla.), Vol. 30, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, October 26, 1923, newspaper, October 26, 1923; Miami, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1749196/m1/1/: accessed April 16, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.