The Leedy Times And Herald (Leedy, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 9, 1920 Page: 2 of 8
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THE LEEDEY TIMES
A REVIEW OF EVENTS OF WEEK
FROM ALL SECTIONS
TENANTS OCCUPY FARMS
LeFlore County Load In Number
Oil and Cotton Countie Few
ect Landlord In Country
4
Tenants operate more than half the
farms in Oklahoma according to 1920
census figures recently compiled
The report shows 190983 farms in
the state 92961 operated by owners
and 97123 by tenants LeFlore county-leads
in the number of forms with
4932 drops to second place in the
number operated by owners and re-
gains first place with 3058 in the ten-
ant column Bryan county is first in
the number cultivated by owners for
out of 4517 owners are on 2354 Ten-
ants occupy 2193
Washington county has fewer farms
than any other county Out of 726
tenants occupy 378 and owners 348
Lincoln county ranks third in the num-
ber of farms with 4515 2 363 occu-
pied by owners and 2182 by tenants
Southeastern Oklahoma counties
have smaller but more farms than any
other section of the state In the west-
ern part and in some of the northern
counties where the majority of the
land is owned by Indians the farms
are larger In these counties the re-
port shows more farms are operated
by owners than In any other section
In the central part of the state land-
lord and tenant are almost equally
divided
In Cimmaron county nearly five
times as many owners as tenants
This county was formerly in "no-
man’s land” and while it has been
open for settlement a number of years
is still in a state of development that
many other counties passed at a
younger age Texas and Beaver coun-
ties show like averages
With the exception of Oklahoma
county every country in which is lo-
cated a city of importance has a ma-
jority of tenants Oklahoma county
however has 768 more landlords on
farms than tenants
Oil counties are ahead of cotton
counties In the number of tenants as
compared to landlords In Tulsa coun-
ty of the 1625 farms only 601 are op-
erated by owners and in Okmulgee
county the average Is even lower Of
the 1865 farms 1137 are under care
of tenants Muskogee Wagoner and
Bogers counties show about the same
average
MAY EXPORT COTTON CROP
German Representative Invited T
Confer With Grower
Altus — Members of the Jackson
County Cotton Growers’ association
are considering plans for exporting the
1920 crop to European markets Plans
were discussed at a meeting here for
assembling the cotton a Alus ship
ping it to a compress where it will
be reclassified and shipped to the near-
est port The association would re-
ceive 3 per cent to cover the expense
of handling
Dr A Moeller representative of the
German government who is now at
Houston Texas soliciting cotton for
the German market has been asked
to come to Altus to confer with a com-
mittee on the project More than 2000
bales have been pledged for the first
shipment
Ginners are being asked by the as-
sociation to reduce the price of gin-
ning and merchants are urged to low-
er the price of merchandise so that
pickers can accept a lower wage Un-
less this is done directors say many
farmers will have to let much of the
crop remain in the field
—
INCOME TAX REFUNDS SOON
2000 Check To Be Paid Her In Next
8ix Week
Approved claims accruing from
March and April lists of Income tax
returns paid to the government from
this district will total approximately
114000 Refund checks 2000 In num-
ber to cover this amount will be paid
through the Internal revenue office
here within the next six weeks rev-
enue officials announced
The claims are for excess payments
of income taxes and are the result of
an audit of income tax returns made
by the Oklahoma City office last
spring ' The government has Just ap-
proved the figures submitted from the
office here
Claims of excess tax payments re-
ceived at the Oklahoma City revenue
office for the year range from one cent
to 20000 officials stated
SLUMP IN CATTLE RECEIPTS
Whltehuret Says Producers 8old Early
' to Escape Further Declines
Oklahoma City — Curtailment In the
livestock production has been deeply
felt recently at the Oklahoma City
stockyards and while all leading mar-
kets show a considerable loss the
shrinkage here is even more than the
average The average loss In dollars
and cents In livestock received in the
first eleven months of the year at this
market amounted in round figures to
111000000 each month This la based
on present market values and the loss
in cattle hogs and sheep for the year
to date Figured at the high time of
the year the falling off would be con-
siderably greater because the price a
pound now is dollars a hundred
pounds less than the 1920 peak period
a few months back
For the eleven months to December
1 the receipts of cattle totalled 331-
145 head against 468285 a year ago
a loss of 137140 head Calves for the
year showed a lose of 81611 head the
1920 total being 45780 In the hog
department receipts slumped 115811
head the 1920 total being 323963 head
Sheep receipts of 13932 head were
3449 below last year A heavy loss
in horses and mules Is shown this
year’s total of 5822 head being 2650
for the year total 14993 a loss of 5811
compared to last year and the small-
est total of any year sinoe 1915 while
the market's greatest year wqp 1917
when 27303 carloads of livestock were
received
NO WILL LEFT BY HAMON
Kstch Is Named Administrator For
Heirs Bond Fixed at $1000000
Ardmore — Frank L Ketch has been
appointed by M F Winfrey county
judge as administrator of the estate
of the late Jake L Hamon Petition
for the appointment of administrator
was filed in the county court by Geor-
gia Hamon widow 41 years old Jake
L Hamon Jr 18 years old and Olive
Belle 11 years old
It was stated in the petition that
no will was left The heirs requested
the appointment of Mr Ketch whose
bond has been placed at $1000000
Mrs Hamon In the petition Bald that
the value of the estate would exceed
$1000000
Coalgate Men Poison Victims
Coalgate — Clyde Wilburn 18 year
old Bon of Mrs Edward Wllbourn of
the Mowdy eettlemen north of Coal-
gate Is dead and two companions are
reported seriously 111 as a result it is
alleged of drinking poisoned liquor at
a neighborhood gathering
Economics Head For 8tate Appointed
Maud Reichmon of Stillwater a stu-
dent at Columbia university was
elected Btate supervisor of vocational
home economics by the State board of
vocational education She will be of-
fered the place to begin work at the
opening of the second semester of the
school year The place waa made va-
cant a month ago by the resignation
of Mabel Potter who went to Tulsa to
make her home with her family there
Plans for rehabilitation of men in-
jured in industry in Oklahoma were
approved by the board The plan Is
similar to that followed for training of
wounded Boldlers It was drawn up
by executive officials of the board and
provides for co-operation with federal
vocational education agencies
Charles D Maltby of Washington
D C auditor of the federal board of
vocational education came here to au-
dit records of the state board More
than $62000 of federal money and $25-
000 appropriated by the state has beea
spent by direction of the board this
year for vocational education in Okla-
homa Maltby stated that books of the
board were in perfect condition and
that the auditing required only tws
hours r
Durant Aids Auto Tax Drive
Alfred E Boydstun of Durant has
been engaged by Durant to help th
state highway department round up
automobile owners In Bryan county
who have evaded payment of license
tax this year according to word re-
ceived by the state highway departs
meet Shortage of state money has
caused the retirement of 11 but three
state license tax enforcement officers
"There must be about 10000 car
owners in the state who have not
paid the license tax Henry Wood
state highway commissioner said "1
think we shall catch most of them
when the time comes to pay next
year’s tax We have no money to pay
etforcement officers now I should liks
to see other cities and counties follow
the example of Durant In coming t
help the highway department in a fin
al drive to collect th tax”
TAKE UP PROBLEMS
OF THE F
ASKS REHABILITATION OF
FINANCE CORPORATION
AS RELIEF MEASURE
GERMANY TO GET BIG -CREDIT
Measures Are Planned To Be Intro-
duced Before Joint Session To
Make Available ProflU of
Banks for Farmers
Washington — The plight of farmers
due to falling prices was taken to con-
gress Agricultral committees of the sen-
ate and house in joint session began
hearings on conditions brought about
by falling prices preliminary to devis-
ing relief measures They decided to
ask Secretary Houston and Governor
Harding of the federal reserve board
to come before them after Eugene
Meyer Jr former head of the war fi-
nance corporation had declared that
rehabilitation of that body would go a
long step toward furnishing the desir-
ed relief by financing exports of sur-
plus crops
Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska told
the conference he planned to introduce
measures making available the profits
of the federal reserve banks amount-
ing to about $60000000 for loans to ag-
ricultural Interests Governor Hard-
ing with whom the Nebraska senator
conferred issued a statement saying
that neither he nor the board had
taken any stand on the proposition He
declared he had criticised Senator
Hitchcock’s plan but that the matter
was one not within the province of
the board as it concerned the use of
funds which the law required should
be paid Into the treasury
Legislation extending $1000000000
credit to Germany was advocated be-
fore the joint committee by J J
Brauer of New York who claimed to
represent the German government
while Senator Smoot of Utah announc-
ed he would propose an embargo on
Imports of wool for relief of American
wool growers in a bill he will offer
Representative Campbell of Kansas
suggested that profits of the grain
corporation about $100000000 be
made avalable for loans to farmers
The committee was told that the act
creating the war finance corporation
was passed four months after the arm-
istice and intended by congress to
bridge over the situation by financing
exports until normal economic condi-
tions were restored
Conditions now wers those when
congress had in mind in enacting the
measure and that restoration of the
corporation would have a tremendous
stabilizing effecL
Opposition of the "re-vamping” of
war-time government agencies for
peace time operation was expressed
in a statement by Senator Edge repub-
lican of New Jersey He waa anxious
he said to help the farmers and other
classes equally but added that con-
sumers were tired of high prices
LARGE SUM IS RECOVERED
Man Arrested In Oklahoma Leads Of-
fleers to Cache In Council Bluff
Omaha Neb — Postal Inspector W
P Coble of Omaha announced that
Keith Collins returned from Oklaho-
ma to Council Bluffs in connection
with the mail car robbery in the lat-
ter city November 14 led federal of-
ficers to a cache in Council Bluffs
where $23000 of the loot taken from
the train waa recovered
The money was all in ten dollar bllle
according to Inspector Coble who de-
clined however to give the exact loca-
tion where the booty was recovered
Recovery of this sum Mr Coble said
accounts for $50000 taken which was
the only known shipment of cash on
the train It was being shipped east
by a Eon Francisco bank
According to Mr Coble Collins had
$500 when he waa arrested had spent
$700 In traveling about the country
following bis disappearance after the
robbery and gave some to his rela-
tives These sums with the $23800
found made a total of $25000 In ad-
dition to this another $25000 federal
officers report had been recovered pre-
viously in various places in ouncll
Bluffs
Collins was held In JaQ In default
of $50000 bond He was given a pre-
liminary bearing and bound over for
the grand Jury
Collins appeared Indifferent to hia
fate He smoked cigaretts Incessantly
but was oherwlse unconcerned over
bis imprisonment He was brought
here from Kansas City by the postal
authorities who captured him in Oklahoma
US UNCOVERS MEXICAN PLOl'
t I
LUCI0 BLANCO LEADER OF
NEW MOVEMENT--
- ’
— i
Border Raids Net Mass ef Docmen
tary Evidence of Conspiracy to
Resist Government
San Antonio— Wholesale raids by
department of justice officials conduct
ed simultaneously at- various border
points including El Paso Eagle Pass
Laredo Brownsville and this city net
ted a mass of documentary evidence
of the formation on this side of th
border of a new revolutionary move-
ment against the Obregon government
in Mexico according’ to a statement
made here by W A Wiseman special
agent for the department of Justice
According to Mr Wiseman the raids
were ordered by Division Superintend-
ent C EL' Brenlman with headquar-
ters here and thee vldence secured is
being collected in the office of th
local federal bureau of Investigation
Department of Justice agents hers
are known to be busy translating doc-
uments seized during the raids and a
number of errests are expected to fol-
low Among the documents obtained ars
several manifestoes announcing the
aims and purposes of the new “re
formista’’ movement the leaders oi
which are expected to be caught in the
federal dragnet now being thrown out
Lucio Blanco former Carranzlsta
general is the head of the new revolu-
tionary movement according to the ac-
cepted belief in local Mexican circles
U S INVESTORS ARE SHY
Lack of Capital Prevents the Island
Development
Washington— Inability to Interest
American capital on a large scale in
the nation’a insular possessions par
tlcularly the Philippine islands great-
ly retarded development of the great
natural resources of the Islands ao
cording to the annudl report of Major
General Frank McIntyre chief of the
bureau of insular affairs of the war
department to Secretary Baker Gen-
eral McIntyre urges American bankers
and business men to Interest them-
selves in the trade and development of
the outlying possessions declaring
that "large tracts of the beBt agricul-
tural land in the world await devel-
opment” and that In a number of fer
tile provinces the population falls be-
low twenty persons per square mile
while there Is an unsuppiled labor
demand in other agricultural prov-
inces having a population of 250 per t
square mile”
Action has been taken by the Phil-
ippine legislature to provide for the ex
ploitation of the lands It Is said
"The progress of Porto Rico nndei
the organic' act of 1917 has been very
satisfactory and continues so” the re-
port says the island having jnst
completed one of the most prosperous
years In its history
FIVE YEAR TERM FOR P0NZI
Prisoner Pleads Guilty to the Chaig-i
of Using Mails to Defraud
Boston — Charles Ponzl promoter of
the quick rich scheme In which thous-
ands of persons invested millions of
dollars before It collapsed last Augst
pleaded guilty to using the malls in a
Bcheme to defraud in the federal dis-
trict court
Sentence of five years in the Ply-
mouth county jail was Imposed by the
Judge The court took into considera-
tion only the first count of one indict-
ment of forty-four counts in which It
was charged that Ponzl had represent-
ed falsely that he was able to pay In-
terest at the rate of 60 per cent in
forty-five days from profits made in In-
ternational postal coupons
LOOSE BUSINESS IS COSTLY
National Officer of Credit Men Tell
ef Huge Loss
New York— Loose business prac-
tices throughout the country in recent
months have led to the loss of $250
000000 through the order of cancel!
tlons it was declared here in a state-
ment by H F Barker an official ol
the National Association of Credit
Men Mr Barker declared that a "sur-
prising lack of moral fiber" had been
revealed in a survey of the cancell
tlon practice and that of "indefinitely
holding np orders for farther lnstruo
lions”
Organization Will Finance Livestock
Chicago — The livestock finance cor
poratlon completed its organization
and Is ready to begin Its work of a
elating the livestock industry it was
announced after a meeting of officials
of the organization and otheis inter
ested in the livestock Industry The
corporation was launched with a pool
of $22000000 contributed
THREE GIRLS NARROWLY
ESCAPE DEATH IN DUB-
LINE BLAZE
NEWSPAPERPLANT IS FIRED
i —
Armed Cars Patrol 8trets as About
$5000000 Damage Has Been Done
to Building by Fire In
Several Places
Cork — The city hall was completely
destroyed by fire The damage Is esti-
mated at $1000000 The first attempt
to fire the building was unsuccessful
but the torch was applied a second
time
Black and tan policemen were ac-
tive There was heavy rifle firing and
bomb explosions Many houses and
shops were damaged and there waa
much looting
Part of the population became ter-
rified and fled from the city
The incendiary damage about Cork
the past week Including the loss from
destruction of the city hall Is estimat-
ed at $5000000
Dublin — The Freeman’B Journal of-
fice was set afire by armed and masked
men Three girls living on the top
floor had a narrow escape from death
London — AH of the occupants of the
Freeman’s Journal building which was
set on fire by masked men were taken
out safely according to a message re-
ceived at the London office of ths
newspaper The dispatch adds that
heavy damage was done to the build-
ing It also stated that before the
building waa fired armed and masked
men entered the offices of the Irish
Times held up the editorial staff with
revolvers and demanded that a prom-
ise be given that the staff would di-
vulge nothing
The Irish Times Is the leading Un-
ionist paper In Dublin
IS T0 REFEREE ARMENIANS
Is Without Power to Offer or Employ
Military Aid
Washington — President Wilson In
response to an Invitation from the
league of nations has agreed to use his
good offices and to proffer his "person-
al mediation” to a representative he
may designate “to end the hostiUtles
which are now being waged against
the Armenian people”
In accepting the league's Invitation
the President writing to President
Paul Hymans says he makes hia offer
upon assurances of "the moral and
diplomatic support of the principal
powers" and "relies upon the league
council to sugegst to him the avenues
through which his proffer should be
conveyed and the parties to whom it
should be addressed”
The president says he is without
power to offer or employ the military
forces of the United States in any pro-
ject for the relief of the Armenians
and any material contribution will re-
quire authorization of congress which
Is not now in session and which ses-
sion I cannot forecast
'COLLECTS TWO BILLIONS
December Revenue Are Expected to
I Exceed One Billion
I Washington — Government revenues
mainly from income and profit taxes
have reached $2014000000 for tho
first five month period of the fiscal
year This Is $113000000 less than
totals for the same period in 1919
Secretary Houston was Informed
I More than $1000000000 is expected
to be added by collections this month
on the last installment of the income
taxes based upon returns for earnings
last year These revenues are pay-
able December 15
I Receipts for November totaling
$254000000 are about $24000000 In
excess of receipts for November last
year
Reduced Imports caused sharp de-
' creases In customs due during Novem-
ber but for the five months up to De-
cember 1 such revenues were ahead
of the corresponding period last
year by $12000000
8ugar Stocks Total 270000 Tons
Havana— Sugar stocks In Cuba at
present total 270000 tons according
to official figures of the Cuban govern-
' ment This is 30000 tons less than
former reports have Indicated Of this
amount 15000 tons it Is estimated
will be required tor home consumption
up to Jan 1 and approximately 200000
tons of the remaining 255000 is In the
aands of the Cuban sales committee of
the -Association of Planters and Pro-
ducers -
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