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THE WAPANUCKA WORLD
SEVEN DAYS
OF NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
Peace Notes
The administration at Washington
lias decided to accept the Invitation
to send an unofficial representative
to the supreme council and the coun-
cil of ambassadors In Europe The de-
cision was reached after President
Harding and his cabinet had devoted
virtually all of a regular meeting to
discussion of the subject
Preparation for the occupation of
the Ruhr region are proceeding al-
though the general impression Is that
Germany will agree to the allied
terms at the eleventh hour Two full
divisions of cavalry are at Dusseldorf
now under General Hennocque who
Is in immediate command of oper-
ations The reparations commission sum-
moned a delegate of the German war
burdens commission to an official
meeting in Faris and notified him of
the schedule of payments to be made
by Germany which the reparations
commission bad drawn up
Official and military circles are
considering war with Poland It is
alleged that Poland has violated Ger-
man sovereignty It is generally be-
lieved that the political situation and
the treaty of Versailles alone are
keeping Germany from declaring war
Semi-official advices received In
Berlin are to the effect that ail of the
large towns In the industrial region
of Upper Silesia are surrounded by
Polish Insurgents while RIchtersdorf
a suburb of Gleiwitz and Kleferstadt
have been occupied by rebels Various
places in the district of Orsenberg are
reported to have been similarly oc-
cupied The German cabinet headed by
Chancellor Konstantin Fehrenbach
and Foreign Minister Walter Simons
has resigned President Ebert when
apprised of the cabinet's resignation
by Chancellor Fehrenbach gained the
consent of the ministry to maintain
control over current affairs
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A new German offer to the allies
was telegraphed recently from Berlin
to the German ambassador at Baris
for communication to the rearations
commission according to a statement
ascribed by the London Times to
“good authority” The terms of the
offer are not known but the Times
Eays it is believed they are approxi-
mate to acceptance of the allies' de-
cision at Faris January 29
The German government has pro-
tested through the secretary of the
League of Nations against the pres-
ence of French troops In the Sarre re-
gion and the exercise there of French
military jurisdiction
Washington
A renewal pledge of loyalty and
patriotic service on the part of for-
eign fcorn citizens was brought to
President Harding recently by a dele-
gation representing" twenty-one of the
facial conference committees of the
Inter racial council of New York
The first step towards organiza-
tion of the new general headquarters
staff of the army to be headed by
General PerBhing was made recently
when orders went to Col John Falmer
to report to General Pershing for duty
as a member of hi3 staff
Savings accounts in America’s
tanks now total approximately 6Va bil-
lion dollars It was estimated on the
basis of data gathered by the comp-
troller of the currency Before the
war savings accounts totaled only
about 3 billion dollars
A bill allowing farmers to combine
in co-operative associations to mar-
ket agricultural products without suf-
fering restrictions of existing anti-
trust laws ha3 been passed by the
house and now goes to the senate The
vote was 284 to 49
President Harding gave his pledge
to the disabled soldiers at Walter
Reed hospital that the nation would
cot fall in making them fit to em-
brace “the opportunity which is
yours” as citizens of America The
president was accompanied by Mrs
Harding
Domestic
The bodies of John Jakubezyk his
wife and four children ranging from
to 11 years were found in their
borne in Chicago recently A bottle
of whisky beside the dead man was
said by Mrs Jakubezyk’s brother to
have been the cause It le thought he
was intoxicated and lurched agalnat a
'gas jet
Ed Kelly his mother-in-law I'-s J
William 60 years old and Faulina
Johnson 14 years old Brush Col
were killed and Mrs Ed Kelly Miss
Rosie Downing and Floyd and Stella
Shelton were Injured hen Kelly’s mo
tor car was struck at a crossing by a
switch eng’ e in Ottumwa la recent-
ly Refined sugar recently Bold at the
lowest level in the last four years
when the Federal and Arbuckle Sugar
Refining companies announced a fur-
ther reduction of 10 points to a basis
of 630 cents a pound for refined grau-
ulated sugar
About one thousand live stock
handlers of the Union Stock Yards
Transit Company of Chicago who
went on strike last week because their
wages had been reduced 8 cents an
hour decided to return to work and
accept the wage cut subject to arbi-
tration The National Association of Cred-
it men has made public a summary
of a country-wide survey of business
conditions in which it was asserted
that industry had not revived this
spring as predicted and unemploy-
ment still was increasing
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The G A R is looking for some city
to be the host of its national encamp-
ment this year For the first time the
keen rivalry among big cities to enter-
tain the veterans of the Civil War
seems missing and national officers
are at a loss for an explanation
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Southwest
Nine persons three of whom may
di- were injured when Kansas Ok-
lahoma & Gulf passenger train No 5
left the tracks at the Sand Creek
bridge two and one-half miles Bouth
of Wapanuca Ok plunging engine
tender baggage coach and day coach
thrity-flve feet to the shallow water
and mud below
Marvil Martin 13 fell backward
from a tank wagon on which he and
his companions were playing at Mus-
kogee Ok and broke his neck dying
He had been awarded a blue ribbon
for meritorious work as a Boy Scout
an hour beore his death
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C P Sedrick formerly vice-president
of the First National Bank at
Ranger Tex arrested by federal au-
thorities at Brownsville on an order
issued from Abilene by the United
States marshal J A Baggett was In-
dicted by the federal grand Jury on
charge of embezzling more than $90-
000 from the Ranger bank
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Accidentally backing his motor
car off a bluff near Quitaque Briscoe
County Tex Earl Tresh of Altus Ok
was killed and five other persons in-
jured A tourist passing the lonely
spot late In the afternoon discovered
the party
The Republican house and the
Democratic senate of the Oklahoma
legislature have disagreed over their
first appropriation measure around
which a deadlock for the present spe-
cial session is predicted similar to
that which marked the close of the
regular session
Foreifro
It has been learned from a high
authority that Sir James Craig in his
conversation with De Valera gave
De Valera to understand in unmistak-
able tej-ma that under no circum-
stances ‘ would Ulster ever entertain
the idea of assenting to or participat
ing in an Irish republic
Outnumbered by the Polish ‘‘Irreg-
ulars” swarming into Upper Silesia
the French troops have withdrawn
from Kruezberg Rosenberg and Lub-
llnitz Dispatches from the allied
headquarters declared the withdrawal
bad been carried out without casual
ties
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The guns of the Hotel Des Invalides
thundered a salute to Napoleon Bona-
parte exactly to the minute that his
death occurred at St Helena one hun-
dred years ago This was the closing
feature of the two days of ceremonies
In honor of the "Little Corporal” in
Paris
Dr Sthamer the German ambassa-
dor to London presented a note to the
foreign office protesting against the
Polish coup In Upper Silesia as an ap-
parently concerted effort to take the
province by force and refusing all re-
sponsibility for the situation and its
consequences
The allied supreme council has de-
cided to invite the United States to
send a representative as a member ol
the supreme council and also to be
represented on the reparations com-
mission and the council of ambassa-
dors All American non-commissioned of
fleers and men up to and including
sergeants who have married Euro-
peans actually in the Rhineland have
been ordered Lome
A number of citizens have erected
a club house six miles from Holden-
vllle on Little river
Heavy shipments of cattle are going
through Texas almost daily en route
for pasture In Kansas and Oklahoma
In the movement to raise J 1500-
000 for the Oklahoma City college
Methodists of Kingfisher have obtain-
ed 134775
There will be a considerable change
in the resident staff of University hos-
pital for the year of 1921-1922 accord-
ing to the announcement
Sixty-six blocks of paving have been
completed at Atoka recently Twenty
more blocks will be paved during the
summer according to city officials
A portion of the watershed ground
has been leased by the city of Atoka
to a Tulsa firm under contract to be-
gin mining of coal within sixty days
More than $742 was collected in
fines In the Justice of the peace court
from twenty-one crap shooters who
were caught in a game on a creek
several miles west of Marlow recent-
ly With plant under way for the erec-
tion of booths to be completed within
Jhlrty days it Is assured that Bar-
tlesville will have a market place
where farmers can sell direct to the
consumer
Markers have been received for the
B Line highway from Voodward Ok-
lahoma to Stratford Texas via Follet
Booker Ferryton and Spearman Tex
The markers will be placed In the
next few days
A series of basket picnics to be held
during late July and August is being
planned by the Ponca City Retailers’
association All Ponca City people
will join with the farmer folk of a
community In the affair
Martin Larran will begin the erec-
tion at once of a modern concrete
block building on Second avenue Just
off Main street In Purcell which will
be used to house the Purcell laundry
The building will be rushed
Figures from the report of the sur-
geon general of the United States
public health service It was shown
that 9000 war veterans are now scat-
tered in more than 1500 Institutions
for hospital care where there treat-
ment cannot be supervised by govern-
ment agencies It Is stated that hun-
dreds of the hospitals under contract
with the government are temporary
wooden structures Insanitary and ex-
posing the disabled men to a hazard
of fire
Permanent organization of an Ok-
lahoma Forestry Association will be
brought about at the first meeting
which has been called by Prof Chris-
tian Jensen of the Oklahoma A & M
College to be held at Oklahoma City
June 8 and although Mr Jensen di-
rects the call to chambers of com-
merce and similar bodies he urges
that all citizens who are interested
Join in the movement The state as-
sociation will be affiliated with the
national
The fattest meet In the history of
Oklahoma Interscholastic athletics —
such Is the record of the seventeenth
annual Interscholastic Although on-
ly one record was broken a number
were crowded and all of the events
even those In the newly created class
C were pushing the Btate interschol-
astlc records Forty-two events in-
cluding many trial heats were run off
by the University of Oklahoma ath-
letic officials in four hours and fifteen
minutes without a single hitch through
out the entire meet
A new grandstand and a commodi-
ous pergola are Improvements being
planned by the city part board for
legion park of El Reno during the
next few weeks The grandstand will
be built on the hall diamond to be
used in connection with the baseball
leatnie games while the pergola will
be erected on the Island in the lake
Dewar schools In the Industrial dis-
trict of Henryetta will dose May 20
with twenty-nine graduates from the
eighth grade and seventeen from the
Junior high A I Moore formerly of
the agricultural department of the
Henryetta schools will succeed H L
Stites as superintendent Professor
Stites going to Javenport
Two new seta of machinery one a
25-ton testing machine for mechanics
and the other a 26 horse power steam
turbine and centrifugal pump have
been added to the engineering depart-
ment at the University of Oklahoma
Organization of a class cf 129 mem-
bers in the study of petroleum geol-
ogy has been effected In the Ardmore
high school The text book to be
used is the United States bureau of
mines report on tbs Hewitt field
MARKET CONDITIONS
1 Crain
Trice advanced under good export de-
mand light offerings and trong cash
market with limited wheat atocka Chica-
go Advance cauaed considerable liqui-
dation caah grain by producer on 4th
and 5th but subsequent unfavorable crop
new Okluhoma and other section and
keen export demand with good alo to
Europe Induced a reaction Technical po-
sltlon greatly weakened by recent bulge
and lower prices ruled on the 7th High-
ly beneficial rain reported Kanaa and
Nebraska Caah market easer Weakn-e-a
In May wheat on 7th due report Omaha
and Minneaiioll shipping caah grain to
Chicago Kngllah buyera reported sell-
ing near shipment wheat and replacing
with deferred shipments Export demand
now slow Kuroi take Argentine ac-
count discount under domestic country
offerings fairly liberal at clone In Chica-
go cash market No 2 red winter wheat
4147 No 3 hard $152 No 3 mixed
corn 5c No 3 yellow corn Hoc No 3
white oats 37c For the week Chicago May
wheat up 10 l-2c at $141 5-8 May corn
2 1-8 at 5 l-4c Chicago July wheat up
c at 114 July corn ic at 61 3-4 Min-
neapolis July wheat up 5 l-2c at $120
Karinas City July 6 l-2c at $107 1-4 Win-
nipeg July 5c at $145
Hay
Receipts continue very light but limited
demand prevents any mitti-ilil advance in
price Kansas City reports Increased
country loadings Some accumulation In
terminal at Cincinnati Quoted: May 6th
No 1 timothy New York $3050 4’lnln-
natl $2n Chicago $22 Minneapolis $18
Atlanta $2 No 1 alfalfa Kansas City
$2150 Memphis $2850 No 1 prairie Mlu- -Despoils
$1550 Kansas City $15 '
Feed
Wheat feeds and cottonseed meal a re
'lightly higher but demand limited to Im-
mediate needs Other feeds steady at re-
pent declines Quoted May 6th: Spring
bran New York 26 Chicugo $2150 Min-
leapolla $10 standard middlings New
York $25 Chicago $18 Mlnnapolls $15
Inseed meal Minneapolis $dt Chicago $31
gluten feed Chicago $2050 Cincinnati
$-180 cottonseed meal Atlanta $2050
Memphis $27
bsiry Products
Butter markets unsettled price tenden-
cy downward Trading not normal oth-
erwise tone of market would be firmer
as there has been temporary shortage of
aome grades declines due to desire of
trade to keep stock moving In anticipation
of usual Increased spring production
Closing prices 2 score: New York and
Boston 30c Chicago 31c Philadelphia
B7c Cheese markets show some Improve-
ment following Monday’s decline on Ply-
mouth Wisconsin cheese exchanges
Sales the past two days at alight ad-
vances over those early In week L’ntler-
tone of market still somewhat unsettled
but there la more general feeling that
prices are about as low a they will go
for the present In Wisconsin primary
markets: Twins 14 -2c daisies 14-14 l-2c
double daisies 13 3-4c longhorns 14c
young Americas 14 l-2c
IJrsTtork aad Meats
Chicago hog prices advanced 25-30c the
past week tood and choice heavy beef
steers up 35-50c Other beef steers steady
to 25c higher Butcher cow and heifer
and feeder steers up 25c Fat lambs 25-
dc spring lambs unevenly lower Year-
lings and fat sheep steady May 7 Chi-
cago prices Hogs bulk of sales $830-
875 medium and good beef steers $7Vu
875 butcher rows and heifers $5-865
feeder steers $675-815 light and medium
weight veal calves $'-10 fat lambs $W25-
1140 feeding lambs $7-850 ycarlngs $8
K50 fat ewes $575-7 25
Stocker and feeder shipments from
eleven lmortant markets during the
week ending April 21 were: Cnttle snd
calve 46685 hogs 7IM: sheep 11085
In Eastern wholesale fresh meat mar-
kets lamb advanced $1 mutton $1-2 per
10 lbs beef steady to 50c lower veal
down $1-3 pork loins down $1-2: May 6th
prices good grade meats: Ileef $16-1650
veal $15-18 lamb $21-25 mutton $16-18
light pork loins $22-25 heavy loins $16-
20 Fruits aad Vegetables
Northern round white potatoes down 10o
per 100 lb at shipping points closing 60-
iic sacked Chicago carlot 80-POc New
York round whites $1-110 In eastern con-
suming centers Florida No 1 Hauldlnf
Rose up 25-SOe ter double head barrel
New York at $825-850 Texas sacked
Rile Triumph down Sc per 10 O pounds
middle western cities ranging $4-5 New
York Baldwin apples up 60c per barrel
In city wholesale markets A 2 1-2 cold
storage stock $650-750 Northwestern
fancy Wlnesaps nearly steady Chicago
medium to large sixes $275-325 small
sixes $2-250 Packed yellow onions slow
snd dull eastern city wholesale markets
at 75c-$l ter 100 lb few sales from cold
storage New York at $175-2 Texas yel-
low bermudas $160 to $2 per standard
crate No 1 and 2 stock commercial tack
In eastern markets: $115-175 In middle-
western centers shipping stations up lOo
at !Oc-$l carload FOR shipping point ac-
ceptance New Jersey yellow sweet po-
tatoes up 25c per bu hamper New York
May 6th at $276-3 Delaware and Mary-
land stock mostly fl 75-215 In eastern
markets Tennessee Klondike straw-her-rle
slightly weaker at 25-27c qt basis
New York Virginia stock 28-Vc Klon-
dike In 24 qta crate $351-425 per crate
car loads FOR cash track Arkansas points
$425-5 Tennessee stations
Cotton
Spot cotton prices advanced 46 points
the post week closing at 1163c per pound
New York May futures up 50 points at
120c
Warsaw University Honors Wilaon
Warsaw— Woodrow Wilson Her-
bert Hoover and Marshall Foch were
given the degree of doctor of law by
the University of Warsaw recently
Ten Police In Ambuscade
Dublin— Then policemen were am-
bushed in County Westmeath by fifty
armed men Sergeant Murray was
shot dead and another constable dan-
gerously wounded
Editor Quits Paper Field
Kansas City— Edgar P Allen re-
cently editor-in-chief and chief edi-
torial writer of the Kansas City
Journal for many years resigned re-
cently to become connected with the
National Lumber Manufacturer’s As-
sociation with headquarters la Wash-
ington College Heads Deny Charge
Valpariso Ind— C Jeffrey presi-
dent of Valparlso University anti the
hoard of trustees of that institution
issued a fcioeJ statement denying
rharye that "bolshevism commun-
ism and other cults” exist at the In-
stitution These charges were made
April 25 by D&nel Russell llodgon re-
tiring president of Valparpxk
LIFETIME ENIEO
‘‘Words Can’t Express Gratitude
I Feel Toward Tanlac”
Says Mrs Burrington
"From childhood until I got Tanlac
I suffered from Indigestion and stom-
ach trouble” said Mrs J A Burring-
too 0-10 Stanford Ave Los Angeles
MRS J A BURRINGTON
Lot Angeles Calif
Calif "and that’s been a long time
for Pm now In my sixty-eighth year
“I remember when I was a child I
was kept on a strict diet of lime
water and milk for weeks and I have
been In constant distress all these
years I suffered terribly from bloat-
ing and had to be very careful of what
I ate I became so weak and nervous
I could hardly go about my housework
and was In a miserable condition
"About two years ago my husband
got such splendid results from Tanlac
ho insisted on my tuking it and the
medlcino wasn't but a little while in
ridding me of my troubles It gave
me a splendid appetite oud I could
enjoy a gtxsl hearty meal even things
I hadn’t dare touch before without
any fear of it troubling me
"Then I hud the Influenza and be-
came dreadfully sick and weak but
my stomach kept In good order and It
only took four bottles of Tanlac to
build me up uguin to where I'm now
feeling better thau at uny time I enn
remember I have gained eleven
pounds In weight too und words can't
express the gratltudo I feel toward
Tunlitc I keep Tanlac In the house
all thu time now for I know' It Is A
medicine that can be depended upon"
Tunluc Is sold by leading druggists
everywhere — Adv
Saw Both 8ides
Llttlo Roy doesn’t care for dancing
and at tho party tho other night he held
aloof as much ns possible His sister
said "Roy don't you realize that ev-
ery time you don’t dunce there Is some
little girl not having a good time?”
“Yes" said Roy "and don’t you
realize thut every time I do dance
there Is a llttlo boy who Isn't having
u good time?"
Stop There
"She’s loo pood for me"
"That's all right my boy Tell her
so but don’t try to prove It”
City noil is suld to be superior to
Country soil for wild outs
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