Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 34, No. 170, Ed. 2 Wednesday, November 14, 1923 Page: 2 of 22
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OFFICES SCARCE AS
gram was held.
Feature values at
All Details Are Bared.
of
his secretary. Blake. was very much
$50 $55 $60
ANO IS NOW IN JAIL
Walton discussed his legislative pro-
the
Others From $30 up
PARISIAN
border Lawton’s water supply.
Canvas-back,
highest type of the gang.
leged bandit han an excellent educa.
\ TWO STORES
he raised his hands and said with a
Walton, after the trouble arose be-
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told him that he did not have
any-
thing against the klan, but that he
■ would have come across sooner
Trade-Mark Reg.
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a....... RATES PROBED FAILS/TOSNowUp
—One little Bob White coat 8. B Hof
i fine of Oilton 425 and costs in the
slow drawl: ‘Gentlemen have I kept
you waiting’ ”, McDonald said Tues-
day in telling of the capture. “Then
he looked us over and remarked, ‘If
For Winter
Festivities
Discount On All
Hand Tooled
handsome
bag. Get them
and
had
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, Craig county from the tax on gaso-
Une during this year will be spent
on gravelling email stretches of roads
the refinery rock road near Vinita,
one mile of the road north. and one .
and a half mile west will be graveled.
The Big Cabin graveled road will be
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Seventeen million dollars, (U te offi-
cial, estimated Tuesday night, is the
stake in the middle-western grain rate
That’s exactly
what we want to
see you get—and
you will, too, if
you come here for
a Kuppenheimer.
' Harding.
Since August McDonald has worked I
the witness asserted.
Walton was accepted into the ranks ;
Tfliy said, the titan and also the im. | his
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not want him to find out that he had
' joined the order.
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signing Walton’s name and the gov.
: ernor handed Tilly a ten-dollar bill.
• The oath then was administered.
. Had Written Authority. .
Christmae nhopping be-
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414 N. Robinson
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QUITS HIS POST 1
AS U. S. MARSHAL .
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. boys of the town st a banquet and
He served Tuesday evening a Boy Scout pro-
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Walton May Reply.
The witness said that another time
in the governor', office, with Meri-
wether and Davenport also present.
Meriwether administered an addtional
paragraph of the klan oath that none
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and Berry and save hi, testimony. . opposed to the klan and Walton did
Tilly bared all details of Walton's
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At the meeting In
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Three Attempted Jail Breaks
Given as Cause,
' Vinita Ketchum road: and a half mile
on the Jefferson highway.
. "I told him that I did not consider which the prisoners wete sentenced
• that I had any. He asked me who I Publicity that same night to the ef
• did have. I told him that Dr. Daven. feet that the grand dragon had defied |
tion designed to reduce coal prices.
SWARM LAWTON LAKE HUNTERKILLSQUAIL
The case for lower freight rates on
grain, grain products and hay will be
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THE ALLEN A COMPANY, Kenosha, Wisconsin
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Keep Your Recorda So You
Cm Refer To Them
Start with one if one is enough;
grow to as many as you need.
Call Maple 4400 for a salesman
or write us. All sizes.
AKLAHOALA leads the t'nited states and two of the three largest pro-
ducers of grain sorghums in the acreage of crop required to pay for an presented almost wholly from
court of Justice A. J. widman there. .
Hotfine is now in the Drumright Jail 1
as a result of his inability to pay.
With the opening of the quail sea
, The work\was given Walton ....
• authority of Minor Meriwether, great
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You will always find a profus-
ion of beautiful cut flowers here,
Let us help you plan your dec-
orations for your dinner party,
dance or social gathering.
All orders are given our care-
ful and prompt attention. Phone
orders will be delivered as re-
quested.
CHEATHAM
Seed and Floral Co. •
Corner MA and Rudeon
Maple AIM
—ee
He then handed the receipt to Dav-
enport and asked him to keep it for
Muskogee. i hin, Tilly testified, as he said that
wether and asked him it that pro-
cedure would lie all right. The great
; titan gave assurance that it would
- do about it.
* "I went to Oklahoma City under
his orders and took the matter up
- with Dr. Davenport and he said he,
? would see what could lie done, that
, the governor, he thought, would be
• very glad to get in, but that he
•could not do so in Oklahoma City.
Blanca last week.
McDonald describes Nash
perial wizard, Hiram W. Evane, cer-
tifying to this.
Not Given to Public.
also alive with water foul and many
hunters sit on hill sides along the big
lake and get the bag limit as the
ducks come over, going down stream ,
to other bodles of water in Medicine ,
Delayed shipment—just arrived and
they must be sold. Primrose Quality,
a blanket that you well know__reg-
ular $8.50 value, special pair—
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HINKING of.
1 new clothes?
Then we have a
lot in common.
You want a fine
looking suit, of
course. You want
it to fit right,
and stay that way.
32 Piece Breakfast Set
Bargains
Extra fine looking dishes—shown in
smart patterns—featured at special
rs*.................$5.95 1
I Wood or Steel Transfer
I Cases
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GRAIN SORGHUMS
2 "Suffice it to say." he declares, "that
J there was a strenuous effort, amount- i
Ing almost to intimidation, made te
and advised that he would be guilty | gram as a klansman with TIIIy.
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be and ordered Tilly to go the same
night.
Walton did not belong to the Okla-
homa City klan, Tilly said, but was a
klansman at large, belonging to the
Atlanta jurisdiction. His 110 fee paid '
for a year's membership in Atlanta.
Fj
witness said, with Meriwether and .
WESTERN BANK
.SUPPLY ca
D.W.COLLINS.PRESIDENT
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•titan, and Dr. Edwin DeBan , then tween him and the klan. Tilly said,
.grand dragon of the klan for Okla-
to Meri-
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car la transferred from the original
owner. Such a codicil, he Miya, would
be In the form of a guarantee to the
The card was brought
Peerdweduplies
110 W. Grand
from the Cabin creek bridge
mobile larceny he made more string- :
ent so that a person owning an auto-
mobile on which numbers have been
changed be required to give a dear
title from the time of ortginal pur
chase of the car. Three abstracts of ■
Special Christmas
Candle Sale
Sets of most baautiful candles, 12 small
and two large with place cards to match.
Regular price $3.50. c» Ah
#xtra special........ •L.UU
Thanksgiving Favors
allies, favors, nut cups, Hecera-
Jive paper — everything for the
"anksgiving entertainment
Sena Thanksgiving Greetings
Sc up to 35c
Tilly said he then called Mer-
: near Vinita; a mile and a half of
: A few of these, very much the same as illustration. :
; These gr :
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Tilly, a physician
appeared willingly
acre ot average plow land. Texas, Kansan, Oklahoma and California are
four largest producers. With the exception of Texas, Oklahoma grain
ghums per acre wil buy more plow land than any other state which
born in Kentucky. He enlisted for I day in schools and the boys brought
To the Man Who Discriminates
in Selecting His Underwear
Q Y his every viewpoint of fit and comfort-"Allen A”
• spring - needle knit underwear gives the fastidious
man complete satisfaction.
As an accepted standard of value, "Allen A” undrwear
for men or boys, is always worth more than its cost Umk
for the "Allen A” mark of quality, fit, service and
.Style that Hears
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- Beautifully tooled and Complete-
: ‛ fitted. These range $29.00:
• hi price up to • a • •. •, , *
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♦ have me join the klan in February
Eduring the session of the legislature
- by certain parties, ofticlals at the
There is no more ■
appreciated gift for •
most women than a •
to. Mexico. Al Spencer, head of the
gang was shot early one morning
* -ta---r—
You Know a Tonle I* Good
when it makea you eat like * hungry
boy ahd brings back the color to your
cheeks. You can soon feel the strength-
ening. Inviforating Kf feel of GROVE8
TASTELKSS CHILL TONIC. 6,
(Adv.
A“-s
been desienatea 1
extended three-quarters of
Wednesday has
Lowry, Duke; W. D. MeBee, Duncan;
John H. Miller. Tulsa; G. W. Moot
i hart, Miami: William J. Otjen, Enid;
- Jess L. Pullen, Sulphur; Leslie I. Ray. .
Laverne; Leslie .E. Salter, Carmen; ! mailed to Atlanta. The Muskgee i to the Philippine Islands. T
Newt Sanders, Brooken; J. W. Simp- i physician mW. Meriwether saying four years and received his honorable
son, Tulsa; R. A. Singletary. Okla- that hedia.n otthinkit best.at that ! discharge at the end of the war.
homa City; M. L. Smith. Hominy; time that the information of the gov , n " , church dav Father. ...A anuv. --------
Davo A. Stovall. Hugo. Allen Street. ernor'a Initiation become vublie. Returning from the Philippine , Senourdato"a then andusonshayeicopr. of g,4. A.L.
Taylor, Me-. A.receipt .was delivered to Walton . islands. McDonald moved to El Reno, at the , hurehet CP - day will S86overnors o ptates AskCO
he has lived since. He was ap- Observed in schools Thursday. Fr Into Conference,
Oklahoma City; T. D. Taylor, Me- I _ . -----.
' Alerter; H. Trendway. Hollis; G. I by Meriwether, Tiliy averred, purport-where he has lived since. He was ap-
Vann Dall, Bartlesville; W S. Vernon, ed to be for » year's dues. The gov- i , . ., h, , nitea stat..
Coweta: J. N. Voorhees. Fairview; M ernor took it, looked It over, and said
M. watson. Chandler; J. J,. Watson "That's mighty nice, thank you," ac shal’s office in 13.0. by President
* port was very close to Walton and the governor and that the fight was ,
. that the doctor was a klansman. He on in earnest was followed almost Im:
ordered me. as titan, to proceed to I mediately, however, by declaratioon of west
, "I informed him that this was a
- special dispensation from Atlanta I
' to take these officials in at large.
. He stated that he was almost sure
•that the governor would do that and
*that he would see him and let me
. know. A few days later he called
me up at Muskogee, said It was all
right and for me to come over at I
. once.”
Belongs to Atlanta Klan.
Johnston B. Campbell, members of the Wright and was evidently prosper-
interstate commerce commission. Ing with it.
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’ Salisaw; 1.. E. Watkins, Nedtord; J cording to the witness.
C. H. Windle. Granite. Blake Was Opposed.
to 140 pounds, snow white heir, light
complexion. When he left home hq
was dressed in black trousers with a
light striped gray cap and brown
sweater coat.
VINITA, Nov. 13.-(Spegial.}- Ths
♦ 16.000 estimated to be derived by
Select your Christmas Cards
now before the rush begins
New Mah Jongg Sets
Imported Sets, Antique Tray
Cases $30 up to $100
Pung Chow
Paper, $2.50; Am An
Wood ............. 33.U0
French Ivory, Aieh AA
$25.00 up to.... •1JU.UU
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virtually without a step In trackingunnemanSArAAL,
down the Spencer train robbery gang ! |NUU vANOS OF DUCKS
His work has laken him from Cayada
giant goose.
It is not uncommon for a party of
four hunters to come back from the
lake over a weekend with 106 or
more ducks. Wild game is so plenti-
ful that the Medicine Park lakes are
---- Two months ago Spry resigned the
here postmastership and a month ago he
; Besides this special we have :
: many other sizes and designs. :
Records Are Checked,
Monday afternqon, F: Bassett, presl- l
dent of the First National bank of
of the state to discuss legislation
which will halt automobile theft.
Schenck clalmn that the law passed
by the last legislature requiring Is-
suance of a clear title on ell automo.
biles when sold, the title to be similar
to abstracta now used in land trans-
actions. does not meet the require-
ment.
His plan calls for the attachment
to the abstract of a description of the
person buying and selling when the
/
of them ever before had taken.
Walton, it was intimated by coun- l
sel, would be prepared to give out a
lengthy statement in answer to I
Tilly’* testimony, probably to be is
sued on Wednesday.
before Vernon
as the
The al
him Une up every man for a program
that would put necessary legislation
through, but that some of his legisla-
f tion would have to be cut out if they
were to be of any assistance to him.
eluding a number of Walton's pet
on * theories.
in the county, according to a resolu-
tion passed by county commissioners.
Three miles of the Welch Miami
road, beginning at Welch, will be
graveled. Starting from the end of
DRUMRIGHT, Nov. 13 —(Special.)
hearing which will reopen
Wednesday before John Each
entrance into the klan after he had
been sworn before the committee
SSE aief
with 800d * fmallards while now sald that In spite of the vigllence of
nnd nertempnwmavea the" iaw many......I Ar being “
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OKLAHOMA CITY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBF- 1925.*^ _______
FouLraypama, SPENCER GANG
until Mcrm mini
Davenport also present.
the guberna- । The trio called on the executive
was handed and told him they had come to help
' and public utility commissioners
; from the eight states involved agreed
in a conference Tuesday. The states
represented Rie Kansas, Missouri,
I f,r •. Offitt
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search for the last of the bandits, sands of them having come in on the
Frank Nash. Nash was tralled to the ’ lake during the Inst cold wave nnd
border and captured near Sierra | remained to feed in the fields, whl.lt
MARLOW, Nov. 13.—(Special.}—
Father and Son week is being ob-
duces an appreciable amount of this crop. The chart shows th, amount in
acres needed to purchase an acre of plow land.
red-heads, pin tails
PUT IN PRISONTahonck hu propomen that theorg.
• V • b IIIWil present criminal ends covering auto
• homa, both verbal and written au-
• thority being given Tilly, in addi-wanted to put down some of the or- I known of it."
• tion to further permission by tele-1 gantzation ■ actions, outlawry, etc. ----:— --------
......... „ t " : non CRAIG COUNTY ROADS
tRi,, i Tilly said he believed nanons
-initiation of Walton were given in 1 .. . . . .. . . .
• ".,3 mm.. .u । action in declaring martial law was
a detail by Tilly to the investigators.! . _ _____, . Wc,,ag.
• r,z..gk, 1, , m . ‘more as a personal method in hitting ,
* Meriwether called me from Tulsa ,1 ... . ' . ,, M ... mt1 41,,
, , , , .. „ . , at the grand dragon. He aid that
-and asked me 5° there, and a number ot others visitedth-
.led He informs me that it was governor in an erfort to get him to
he desire of the klan heads in At- martial law then prevailing in '
•the state officials and United States Had Virtually Agreed.
Officials including United States He had virtually agreed to do no and
.judges, into the organisation, and also agreed that he woula quit par
rasked.me 1 had any influence doning and paroling vrisoners with
. ith overnor Walton. out previously ndvertising his cor.
Ordered in Oklahoma City, tempiated action in the counties from
at this reduced :
price and lay away :
for Christmas.
Six alleged members of the Al
Spencer train and bank bandit gang,
held in Oklahoma City and Guthrie
Jell, will be moved to McAlester fo/,
safekeeping Wednesdny morning.
Alva McDonald, United States mar-
shal for the western district of Okla-
homa, announced Tuesday night.
I Authority for the move was granted
Tuesday night by Harry Daugherty,
attorney general, after he had been
intormed by McDonald that three at- '
tempted jail deliveries, participated
in by the alleged gangsters, had been
foiled.
The men who will be t-'ken lo the
penitentiary under heavy guard are:
George (’unis, alias Whitey Fallon.
Grover Durell, Ear Thayez, Frank
Nash. Riley Dixon and Curtis Kelly
"The courtesy of M E. Trapp, act- |
Ing governor is greatly appreciated.” ,
McDonald said. "When he heard that
a number of efforts had been made by
the men to escape, he offered tie the
use of the penitentiary."
to Walton, Tilly stated.
"You just fill this card out, Dor.
I’ll answer all the questions." Tilly
said Walton asserted when he was
• given the application. . .... .
’ — " . Pet Bills Put liver.
. Davenport then filled out the card. The ernor made out a long list, .....
' .nd Tilly said that he understood that ; “ has the diction o • colege
afterward about 80 percent of the "Wh.n l throw a gun down on him
bills agreed upon became laws, in- h. „. d hi .... ana ... wi" ,
published in statements by N. J. Jew
ett, grand dregon; Dr. Tilly, and others
•in September with regard to the al
-leged application to which he says It
.was dulined Davenport and Tilly ap-
J pended his signature.
Tried to orce Him.
mar* day the boys will be guests at a ——
football game. Saturday wi be B0ys HARRISBURG. Pa., Nov. 13(—
work day when all are urged to do ' Aovernor Pinchot Tuesday night sent
some work. Next Sunday lathers sre ' letters to the governors of twenty-nine
asked to take their sons to church anthracite consuming staten invitine
them to a conference November 26 to
consider a prozam of federal legisla-
CONTIUED PHOM PAGR OXE.
to A. Jones, the newly appointed
postmaster.
Not a r<wident of Kiefer remembered
seeing Spry lbave the eity. It was
reported that he had been seen in Sa
pulps at 8:30 o’eloek Monday morn-
ing. but this was not, verified.
PINCHOT CALLS RESuLT OF OIL doom
I ARDMORE, Nov. 13—(Speclal.)--
AAmI orooAAA R schenck, assistant county at |
I 11 11 I KF KKIIINK torney of Caner county. Is planning
UUnL VLUVIUIVU | for » meeting of all county attorneys
2 klan, and some of them being in my
* official family. Reason therefor was
- urged that a majority of the members
- of the legislature were members of
C the organization."
Names of house members given him i
" as being those of klan members also :
' he announces as follows:
Calls Them Klansmen.
I O. B. Acton. Lovll; W. A. Adams.
I Moorewood; C. H. Baskin. Nowata;
Wayne Bayless, Claremore; A. K.
- Barry Kiefton: Inhn M, Hell. Ton-
kawa; Frank M. Boyer, Tulsa:
# Charles B. Brice* McAlester; W, 8.
. Burleson, Oklahoma City, Henry L.
♦ Cloud, Hennessy; K. G. Comfort,
' Westville; Jerry Coover, Woodward:
A. H. Culp, Boggs; W. I. Cunning-
han), Sapulpa; A. L. Davis, Chicka-
* shn; C. T. • Edwards, Dustin; L. A.
* Everhart, Birk ford; Richard Elam,
Pawhuska; W. W. Ferrell. Tulsa; W.
• H. Franks, Braman; L. E. Goodrich,
“ Lawton; Gordon Gray, Chickasha; J.
D. Gulager, Tahlequah; V. L. Head-
• rick, Garber: R. F. Howe, Billings;
2 Charles T. Hitson, Slick; F. B. Jones,
Carnegie. Burton Kidd. Poteau;
■ Henry R. King, Frederick: Charles 1).
Lewis, Okmulgee; J. C. Lindsey,
. Choteau; G. S. Long, Tulsa ; L. R.
Seventeen Million Dollars
Estimated at Stake,
Oklahoma City to see what I could i state wide martial law, Tilly said.
Tilly denied that the governor at gravel road will be built on the Vin-
tempted to visit or join the klan in ‘ “ ** ‘
I have, I am regretful indeed
over the assets on hand in the post-
office to Postmaster Jones. They din-
covered no discrepancies, but all ths
recoida were not examined.
Oklahoma, Nebraska, Iowa. Minneso- ( Spry’s wife feels his enemies have
ta. South Dakota and North Dakota, abducted him. However, there is no
_ _ ~ ~~ * evidence at hand to bear out thia be-
FATHER SON EVENTS .......................
GTAfn AT MAp WA ' be a family man, spending most of his
M-MH-W • I MMTLVVV spare time at home. He is about 5
• ----- feet 5 inches tall, weight around 135
near the Kansas line in the Osage 1
hills, after McDonald and his depu- LAWTON. Nov. 13— (Special >—
ties had trailed the bandit for days. ' Lake Lawtonka, which during the
N..h Last Captive. xummer montha 1s the fisherman's
paradise, this fall means the same .
With virtually all of the gang inching to hunters, for the big body of
Jalli in Oklahoma. McDonald began a water is covered with ducks, thou-
promise. This ho did. Neither served in Marlow this week. Every
Oklahoman was appointed.duy a special program i. being given i
Served In Philippines, for father* and sons.
McDonald is 47 years old. He was Monday was observed as patriotic
AejtAnHpsieK®
for all the Family
228-30 W. California We Do Trust You
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wethere ndorsedb himsand.piaced service in the United States army in | their fathers to the exercines. Tues,
etrshduesttinioanee andispe forna .m .nd was wieh the epedition sent day noon he Rotary elub entertained
2.6 - 4./
ACeFs ACASS
1 title, together wih desrttions of U*
puhhasere would be filed nhelthes
the court < erx or the county cier* ‛
vurehnner that he is getting a car I no that they would pecome publie ree
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